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Extracts from the Diary of Leading Signalman G.A. Wakely – HMS Swiftsure

Wakely, G.A. · Mar 5, 1981 ·

17th April 1908: Ship ordered to sea daybreak 18th. 18th April 1908: Sailed from Malta at 0400 and made speed of 12 knots but were soon ordered to increase to ...

New South Wales Naval Forces in 1901

A.N. Other · Dec 31, 1980 ·

WITH THE BASING of the Australian Squadron of the Royal Navy in Sydney, the State of New South Wales saw little need to raise a large naval force and turned ...

The Story of HMCS Protector

Gillett, Ross · Dec 31, 1980 ·

One Ship, One Navy – No Collisions The Story of HMCS Protector IN JULY 1882, motions were brought forward in both houses of the South Australian Parliament for a cruiser-type ...

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The Gift Fleet

A.N. Other · Dec 31, 1980 ·

The Gift Fleet – from the RN to Australia, 1919 WITH THE END OF THE GREAT WAR the Imperial Government found itself with a considerable number of naval vessels on ...

HMAS Bataan

A.N. Other · Dec 23, 1980 ·

The Last of the Australian Built Tribal Class THE LAST OF THE THREE Tribal class destroyers built at Cockatoo Island was to have been named Kurnai after an Aboriginal Tribe ...

Siting of guns at Flinders Naval Depot

A.N. Other · Dec 20, 1980 ·

In December 1941 CPO Don Walker was instructed to take a group of seamen, train them as a crew for a 3.7 inch howitzer and, when they were considered to ...

The Will of an Old Sea Dog

A.N. Other · Dec 20, 1980 ·

Mr. John Harding was a member of the China Naval Contingent of 1900 and served in the Boxer Rebellion with the Victorian Section. He had been a member of the ...

Warramunga’s Badge

A.N. Other · Dec 18, 1980 ·

WHEN HMAS WARRAMUNGA commissioned for service in November 1942 no official badge had been authorised for the ship, and being wartime this was of no great consequence. Early in 1943 ...

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 ...

Memories of the Emden and her Captain Karl Von Meuller

Werner, Arthur · Sep 18, 1980 ·

IN THE YEAR 1913 the German Transport Koenigin Luise put out to sea from the port of Bremerhaven with a detachment of naval men, including myself as an able-bodied seaman. ...

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The Luftwaffe Anti-Shipping Missile Threat During WW II

Bogart, Charles H. · Sep 13, 1980 ·

AMONG THE SHIPS on the firing line off Normandy on 6 June 1944 was the battleship HMS Warspite. Firing broadsides from six of her eight 15” guns she engaged targets ...

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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 ...

The Battle of Tsushima, 1905

Kubata, K. · Jun 30, 1980 ·

Editor’s Note: On the night of 8th February 1904, Vice Admiral Togo led the Japanese Combined Fleet against Russian naval units anchored at Port Arthur at the western end of ...

Bomb Alley, 1942

Max Darling, RANVR · Jun 23, 1980 ·

IN 1942 THE BOMB ALLEY of this story extended 400 miles along the central Mediterranean with every mile within 30 minutes of enemy airfields. At the eastern end the strategically ...

Corvette Maryborough 1941-1946

Harvey K · Jun 23, 1980 ·

HMAS MARYBOROUGH was built by Walker’s Ltd at Maryborough, Queensland and commissioned by Lieutenant Commander G. L. Cant, RAN on 15th June, 1941. Known as the Bathurst class of mine-sweepers, ...

Anti Submarine Warfare – June 1944, English Channel

Darling, Stanley, OBE, DSC and 2 bars, Captain, RANR (Rtd) · Mar 31, 1980 ·

In command of HMS Loch Killin, one of the first of a new class of frigate, Lieutenant Commander Darling joined the Second Escort Group under the legendary Captain Walker in ...

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 ...

On the Gunline – HMAS Perth’s 3rd deployment in Vietnam

Kelly, Michael J · Mar 31, 1980 ·

IN THESE MODERN DAYS of trade expansion and spreading communities there is an ever increasing threat of Communism infiltrating into the free countries of Europe and Asia. In recent years ...

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Slow Boat to China – USS Wachusett, 1865

Bogart, Charles B. · Mar 19, 1980 ·

WITH THE FALL OF FORT FISHER on January 15 1865, for all practical purposes, the Civil War at sea for the Union Navy came to an end. With the closing ...

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The Tobruk Run

Rhoades, Commodore Rodney DSC RAN Retired · Dec 31, 1979 ·

WHILE I WAS IN COMMAND of HMAS Vendetta in 1940-41, she ran a record number of trips to Tobruk. If my memory serves me right we went into that port ...

The Battle of The Glorious First of June, 1794

Payne, Alan · Dec 5, 1979 ·

THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE 1794 proved to be the first major naval battle in the war with Revolutionary France. The battle will always be remembered with honour, although strategically ...

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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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HMS Nelson, Armour Belted Cruiser 1882

Thurston, H. J. · Dec 5, 1979 ·

IF A SINGULAR BRITISH WARSHIP could be called the harbinger of the formation of the Royal Australian Navy, that warship is HMS Nelson. The Colonial Defences Act of 1865 provided ...

HMS/HMVS Nelson – 120 gun Line-of-Battleship 1814

Bastock, John · Dec 5, 1979 ·

THIS THREE-DECKER BATTLESHIP was laid down in December 1809 and launched on 4th July 1814. Nelson was the first three-decker to be launched in England after the victory at Trafalgar ...

Sinking of Sydney by Kormoran – Report by pilot of Kormoran’s aircraft

NHSA Webmaster · Dec 5, 1979 ·

Professor Ahl, a retired German Lieutenant Commander was the pilot of the aircraft of the German raider Kormoran, which sank HMAS Sydney and was sunk by the Australian cruiser. ON ...

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