[Ed: Dec 1995 edition from the Victorian Chapter: Osborne House and its maritime museum at Geelong was under threat to be sold by the local council. The site of the first Royal ...
Naval Historical Review
Book Review: For Those in Peril
Title: For Those in Peril Author: Vic Cassells An evocative title. On the title page, the author says “A comprehensive listing of the ships and men of the Royal Australian ...
Book Review: Contact!
Title: “CONTACT! HMAS RUSHCUTTER and Australia’s Submarine Hunters 1939 -1946.” The disproportionate contribution of Australia to Allied victory in World War II, bearing in mind her limited resources, is common knowledge. ...
Background to Names and Words to Describe Ships and Boats
Letters: Commander Wojciech Francki
Thank you very much indeed for your letter and a copy of the “Naval Historical Review”. I found the interview with Commander Wojciech Francki (the spelling of his name is ...
Letters: Tribal Elders Approve Retention of “Warramunga”
Australians in the Royal Naval Air Service 1914-1918 (Part 2a)
Submarine Sinks Battleship – Holbrook VC
Obituary: Rear Admiral Bryn Mussared (1917-1995)
Rear Admiral Bryn Mussared was born in 1917 in Semaphore SA, and entered the Navy in 1932. On passing out from the Naval College, he was awarded ‘maximum time’ and the ...