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Ship design and development

Williamstown Naval Dockyard – Part 1

Sullivan, John · Sep 11, 1986 ·

Some 16 years ago, in the first or second issue of the ‘Naval Historical Review’, there appeared the first part of a two-part story on the history of Williamstown Naval ...

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The Acceptance of the Second HMAS Voyager into Her Majesty’s Service

Acceptance Booklet · Mar 9, 1986 ·

(Reprinted from the Acceptance Booklet issued in 1957) ACCEPTANCE INTO HER MAJESTY’S SERVICE OF HMAS VOYAGER by The Minister of State for the Navy The Honourable C.W. Davidson, OBE, MP ...

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HMAS Melbourne – As it Was, a Bird’s Eye View

Cluley, R · Dec 9, 1985 ·

BOARDING THE CARRIER MELBOURNE for the first time it was all so baffling. The ship is so huge and her geography so complex I was continually lost as I wandered ...

Oilers in the Royal Australian Navy

Fazio, Lieut. V. RANEM · Sep 24, 1985 ·

IN THE BEGINNING there was COAL!! Lots of it. Dirty, dusty, nostril filling and seemingly unlimited in supply. Coaling Ship was an evolution in which everybody was engaged in the ...

Book Review: Australian and New Zealand Warships 1914-1945

Weaver, Trevor · Jun 21, 1984 ·

Title: Australian and New Zealand Warships 1914-1945 Author: Ross Gillett This book is published by Doubleday Australia with a suggested retail price of $35.00. It is the latest published book ...

The Invincible Invincible

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 1983 ·

THE SHIP THAT CHANGED NAVAL THINKING visited Sydney in December and despite a refusal on Government level to use the Captain Cook Graving Dock won vast public support. Here is ...

USS Keppler (DD765) – Some Facts and Figures

A.N. Other · Jun 21, 1983 ·

LAID DOWN: 23.4.44. LAUNCHED: 24.6.45. IN SERVCE: 23.5.47. Photograph shows U.S.S. KEPPLER in U.S. Navy Service. KEPPLER at this time was a converted gearing DD-710 class FRAM II destroyer and ...

The Royal Yacht Britannia

A.N. Other · Jun 6, 1983 ·

THE ROYAL YACHT BRITANNIA, named and launched by the Queen at Clydebank (Scotland) in 1953, serves as an official and private residence for the Queen and other members of the ...

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Spitfire – The First Australian Built Warship

Straczek, J.H., Sub-Lieutenant, RAN · Dec 31, 1981 ·

SINCE THE FORMATION of the Royal Australian Navy in 1911 hundreds of Australian built ships have served under the White Ensign, ships ranging in size and types from small Channel ...

The Fletcher Class Destroyers

NHSA Webmaster · Dec 28, 1981 ·

IN HIS BOOK “DESTROYERS“, Antony Preston refers to the Fletchers as ‘The Magnificent Fletchers’, and this is a very fitting description indeed. One would have to be an absolute bigot ...

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Success & Failure – The Story of the Torpedo Gunboat

Kurumba · Mar 25, 1981 ·

ORIGINALLY THERE WERE THIRTY-THREE BUILT, comprising five classes in all. They were the torpedo gunboats of the Royal Navy, a smaller but faster variant of the traditional cruiser, but capable ...

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Further information on Bathurst class minesweepers

A.N. Other · Dec 14, 1980 ·

Recently an article concerning the Bathurst class mine-sweepers was featured in this Review. For completeness a few minor points that were not covered are now mentioned. With regard to the ...

Bathurst Class Minesweepers (Corvettes)

Payne, Alan · Jun 30, 1980 ·

HERMAN GILL IN HIS HISTORY of the Royal Australian Navy 1939-1942 stated that the Bathurst class minesweepers or corvettes were ‘an Australian modification of an Admiralty design’ and this view ...

Coastal Motor Boats – 1916

Denis, A.L.E., Commander, RNR (Rtd) · Mar 31, 1980 ·

In the early summer of 1915 three young Naval Officers from the Harwich Destroyer Force (Lieutenants Hampden, Bremner and Anson) conceived the idea of a small fast motor boat, capable ...

Destroyer Design – HMS Kelly

Mountbatten, Lord Louis, Earl of Burma · Dec 5, 1979 ·

By the late Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma KG, PC, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO In a letter to the editor Lord Mountbatten wrote, ‘I ...

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Japanese Gunnery and Torpedo Exercises in Jervis Bay – 1917

Underdown, Michael · Sep 7, 1979 ·

IT IS NOW WELL KNOWN that the Australian Government was critical of the Japanese naval contribution during the First World War. In fact, Japanese naval support to Australia over the ...

Kelly of the Fighting Fifth Flotilla – A brief history of HMS Kelly

Kelly, Michael J · Sep 7, 1978 ·

‘I NAME THIS SHIP KELLY. May God guide her and guard her and keep all who sail in her’. These words, spoken by Miss Antonia Kelly, were to become so ...

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HMS Illustrious – the first armoured aircraft carrier

Payne, Alan · Jun 7, 1978 ·

THE ORDER FOR THE HERMES – the first British carrier designed as such – was placed in July 1917, and later in the year the Chilean battleship Almirante Cochrane, then ...

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HMAS Warramunga, the Second of the Australian Built Tribals 1942 – 1963

NHSA Webmaster · Dec 25, 1977 ·

ON THE 7TH OF FEBRUARY 1942 Mrs. Frank Forde, wife of the then Minister for the Army, smashed the traditional bottle of wine across the sharp stem of the ship ...

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Ship Design at the Turn of the Century

A.N. Other · Jun 24, 1975 ·

The turn of the century produced an unusual range of warships as these photographs show:                             ...

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