A small point that may be of interest to your readers (St Nazaire – The Greatest Commando Raid of WW II) is that Lieutenant Commander (as he then was) Beattie ...
Publications
Letters: Inquiry into the Loss of HMAS Sydney – Approaching unknown ship
I have read with great interest the article by IHN in NHR Vol. 19-4 [Dec. 1998] and the letters in Vo1.20-1 [March 1999] re the sad loss of HMAS Sydney. ...
Letters: Inquiry into the Loss of HMAS Sydney – Communications
Letters: Kings Park Guns
I refer to the article “Coastal Defence and the Kings Park Naval Guns” contained in Volume 20, No. 1, 1999[March 1999]. At the last paragraph the author gives his views ...
Letters: The Vung Tau Ferry
In your Book Review (Naval Historical Review, December 1998) of ‘The Vung Tau Ferry – HMAS Sydney and Escort Ships, Vietnam 1965-72’, your reviewer mentions a story he heard about ...
An Atlantic Convoy 1798-1799
Letter: The Day It Rained Metal At Manus
Hedy Lamarr, Movie Star (and Inventor of torpedo-control )
Mateship
There has been a lot spoken and written recently on this subject. Perhaps it can he best described in the following terms: There’s a sort of bonding that develops out ...
Garden Island – The Barracks Building
Terse Verse
The following verse was apparently composed on the occasion of the initial Task Force of the British Pacific Fleet joining up with the US 3rd/5th Fleet in the North Pacific ...
Book Review: All Men Back – All One Big Mistake
Title: All Men Back – All One Big Mistake Publisher: Hesperian Press An odd title for a very interesting book. This is the story of young Signalman Bill (Buzzer) Bee, who ...
Obituary: Commander James (Curly) FAHEY
James Fahey, AM, RAN Commander, 1924-1998 Known throughout the Royal Australian Navy and the veterans’ community as “Curley”, Commander James Anthony Fahey has died at the age of 74. His death has left ...
HMAS Flinders – 25 Years of Service
At 1430 on the 12th October 1998, the Australian -White Ensign was lowered for the final time in the Royal Australian Navy’s Hydrographic Survey Vessel, HMAS Flinders. Flinders had served Australia for ...
The Australians at Zeebrugge
Notes on the Kings Park Guns
The two Rifled Muzzle Loading 7 inch, 6.5 ton Mk1 naval guns serial No. 148 and 163 were made by the Royal Gun Factory, England in 1866. They were a ...
Coastal Defence And The Kings Park Naval Guns, Perth
Letters: Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
Most of our readers will have been aware that the Queen unveiled the huge re-gilded statue of both her and her husband’s great-great-grandfather, Prince Albert, in London in October 1998. ...
Letters: Inquiry into the loss of HMAS Sydney
Letters – Queen Mary & HMAS Voyager Averted Collision, April 1942
Dear Sir I refer to the article “Abandoned at Sea” in The Review, September 1998. [Ed: Retitled SS Queen Mary and the Loss of HMS Curacoa 1942] There is another incident ...
Letters: St Nazaire Raid
Your article on the story of the St. Nazaire raid – “[The raid on St Nazaire 1942]” – left me rather amused. In the first instance the ship mentioned should ...
St Nazaire – The Greatest Commando Raid of WWII
Inquiry into the loss of HMAS Sydney by Joint Parliamentary Sub-committee
Book Review: Our Shetland Heritage and Emigration to Australia
“Our Shetland Heritage and Emigration to Australia” by Janet Halcrow Basically, this is a family history of the fifth, sixth and seventh generations of the Halcrows, probing their Shetland background ...
Book Review: The Vung Tau Ferry
THE VUNG TAU FERRY – HMAS SYDNEY and Escort Ships (Vietnam 1965-72) By Rodney Nott and Noel Payne 1998 has certainly been a bumper year for Australian Naval histories concerning the ...