Dear Editor, It was with considerable interest that I read your article “Torpedoing of S.S. Ormiston 1943″ by L.A. d’Alpuget, Lieut. RANVR (Rtd) in the Naval Historical Review Vol 21 ...
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Book Review: Stoker’s Submarine
Title: Stoker’s Submarine Authors: Fred & Elizabeth Brenchley Publisher: Harper Collins Nearly every Australian could tell you the history of the landing at Anzac Cove, on 25 April 1915, of ...
Book Review: Southern Trident
Title: Southern Trident: Strategy, History and the Rise of Australian Naval Power Publisher: Allen and Unwin The general reader should not be deterred by the sub-title which implies it is ...
Book review: Memoirs: Mostly Musical
Title: Memoirs Mostly Musical Author: Cedric Ashton Publisher: self-published The reviewer found it most difficult to be objective in his assessment of this book, but to one who is fond of music ...
The Alchiba Travail
Cedric H Ashton MBE (1910-2001) – Artist, Musician, Sailor
In the company of Cedric Ashton one covers a tranquillity of life – artist, musician, sailor and a man’s man of capital ship dimensions! Cedric spent his teenage years in ...
X-Lighters in WWI and at Gallipoli
The Battle of the Atlantic – Western Approaches Command
Carrier Flying – the Greatest Sport
I-52 – Japan’s Golden Submarine – Sunk in the Atlantic in 1944
Remains of the Kriegsmarine Handed to the Allies – 1945
Of the heavy ships only the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and the light cruisers Nurnberg and Leipzig remained afloat (the latter a virtual wreck after being accidentally rammed by Prinz ...
Captain Fogarty Fegen VC RN (1891-1940)
HMS Cossack
The name COSSACK, to many people, means a fierce sabre-wielding horseman from southern Russia. To most World War II naval veterans it reminds them of the exploits of the Tribal ...
Letters: Navy forgotten in Centenary Stamps
It is with some concern that I read in the January-February 2001 Australian Stamp Bulletin that Australia Post is releasing a set of stamps commemorating 100 years of service by the ...
Letters: RAN College
Dear Sir What a charming and informative article that was on the RAN College (Naval Historical Review, Vol 21, No. 4) [Ed: Dec 2000]. Thank you. Given the rate of ...
The Role of the RAN in the Liberation of the Philippines
Missing were the usherettes and the popcorn
Christmas Day Off Korea
I recall this amusing little story as told by my former captain of a large destroyer, from his earlier days during the Korean War (1951-53). My CO was a gunnery ...
Portuguese Carronades – 16th Century Explorers to Australia?
Naval involvement in the Boxer Rebellion – 100th Anniversary
Book Review: Nelson to Vanguard
Title: Nelson to Vanguard, Warship Design and Development 1923-1945 Author: D.K. Brown Publisher: Chatham Publishing Nelson to Vanguard, Warship Design and Development 1923-1945 is the final volume in a three ...
