15th August 2002 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the arrival in Malta of the Pedestal convoy, delivering at heavy cost the critical supplies that saved the island from having to ...
Publications
Stamps Honour British and French Explorers of New Holland
Amid the rivalry of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815), France and Britain sponsored voyages of discovery to complete the charting of the Australian coastline and further scientific knowledge ...
RANVR Yachtsmen in World War II
Figureheads – A Short History
A figurehead (or more correctly figure head was a carved figure, usually human but quite often animal, fixed to a ship’s stem high in the box, just beneath the bowsprit. ...
HMS Byron and the Surrender of U-1009 at the End of WW2
Memorial: HMAS Canberra lost at the Battle of Savo Island
The History of Nelson’s Flagship – HMS Victory
WW2 Coastal Defence on Christmas Island
During their recent Indian ocean deployment on anti-illegal immigration duties, members of the ship’s company of HMAS Kanimbla helped in the restoration of the WW II coastal defence emplacement on ...
Letters: Further Facts about the Sinking of HMS Tamar
Dear Sir, I was particularly interested to read your article “Capture of Hong Kong 1941 – the Naval Battle” [Dec 2001]. Cmdr Crowther was wrong to describe TAMAR as “the ...
Book Review: No Picnic
Title: No Picnic – An Account of the 1982 Falklands War by Author: Royal Marine Maj Gen Julian Thompson Publisher: Cassell. ISBN: 0-304-35647-6 This book, a revised edition of a ...