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Occasional Paper 138 : The mystery sword of the Japanese midget submarines

Dr Tom Lewis OAM · May 24, 2022 ·

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Occasional Paper 70: The Ship’s Garden – GARDEN ISLAND

Editorial Staff · Feb 11, 2020 ·

By Colin Randall Colin is a Committee member, volunteer researcher and tour guide of the Naval Historical Society of Australia with a particular interest in the history of Garden Island.  ...

Occasional Paper 69: The Naval Garden on Garden Island, Sydney

A.N. Other · Dec 17, 2019 ·

December 2019 By Colin Randall Colin is a volunteer researcher with the Naval Historical Society of Australia and a tour guide for its heritage tours of the Hill. He lived ...

Occasional Paper 56: Recollections of founding the Naval Historical Society

Churchill, Peter, Lieutenant Commander, RN (Rtd) · Jun 17, 2019 ·

June 2019 In 1970 Lew Lind, Rod Atwill, Alan Payne and myself found ourselves with the responsibility of putting together an association which we were to call the Naval Historical ...

Our First Gardeners

Rivett, Norman C · Sep 27, 2016 ·

By Norman Rivett Who were they? The first garden from which Garden Island derives its name commenced here on Monday the 7th of February 1788 when a party from HMS ...

Memories of a Garden Island Patternmaker

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 2013 ·

By Ian Thomson The author provides us with a delightful vignette of life as a dockyard apprentice. We should also remember that workers at Garden Island Dockyard were employed by ...

District Officers Boats

A.N. Other · Dec 24, 2012 ·

By Leyland Wilkinson  Leyland Wilkinson is a member of the NHS and was the former head of the trade school for apprentice training at the Garden Island Dockyard Training School, ...

General Managers of Garden Island Dockyard

Rivett, Norman C · Dec 24, 2012 ·

Foreword In the century past (plus two more years, until 10 May 1989) Garden Island was a Naval Dockyard managed by a succession of twenty six Naval Engineering Officers of ...

Garden Island Naval Chapel & Chapel of Remembrance

Rivett, Norman C · Dec 21, 2009 ·

A cavern offering contemplation, reflection and reverence of figures and times past: a ‘Ship to Heaven’ commemorating those who lost their lives whilst or after serving in the Royal Australian ...

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Captain Cook Graving Dock

Rivett, Norman C · Mar 30, 2005 ·

The sixtieth anniversary of the official opening of the (then) largest dry dock in the Southern Hemisphere by the Governor General, HRH the Duke of Gloucester, falls on 24 March ...

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