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Book Review: Australia’s Navy 1992-93

Book reviewer · Dec 12, 1992 ·

This edition of the Navy’s Annual provides a colourful insight into the activities, roles and developments taking place within the Royal Australian Navy. It includes articles on: a. the Navy ...

Book Review: History of HMAS Maryborough

Book reviewer · Dec 12, 1992 ·

The History of H. M.A.S. Maryborough by Barney Ogle M.A., ex RANR, Murray & Ogle Pty Ltd, 1993. 240pp. Barney Ogle’s book on the history of the Australian-built Corvette, HMAS MARYBOROUGH ...

A Brief History of HMVS Cerberus

A.N. Other · Apr 1, 1992 ·

In 1866, the Government of Victoria requested a ship from the British Admiralty to bolster the Colony’s defences. At this time, in England, a new type of ship designed for ...

Book Review: Mutiny on the Bounty

Book reviewer · Dec 11, 1991 ·

The Story of Captain William Bligh, seaman, navigator, surveyor and of the BOUNTY mutineers State Library of New South Wales 1991, Five authors, plates in col & b&w, Ind, 104 ...

Book Review: The Midget Submarine Attack on Sydney

Book reviewer · Mar 11, 1991 ·

Lew Lind, Bellrope Press, 74 pages with illustrations and maps. The Japanese midget submarine attack on ships in Sydney Harbour occurred almost fifty years ago and yet is still a ...

Book Review: HMAS Warramunga’s History 1942-1959

Hinchliffe, L.M. · Jun 29, 1990 ·

HMAS Warramunga’s History 1942-1959 by Sam Whyte HMAS Warramunga’s History 1942-1959 is exactly that. For anyone who served in her at any time during her life, I’m certain he will have flooding memories ...

Book Review: Action Stations

Hinchliffe, L.M. · Jun 29, 1990 ·

Action Stations by Iris Nesdale Action Stations in some ways disappointed me but it must be very difficult to write a book about two ships serving in the same area ...

Book Review: First In Last Out – The Navy at Gallipoli

Hinchliffe, L.M. · Jun 29, 1990 ·

First in, Last out  – the Navy at Gallipoli By T R Frame and G J Swinden This is a timely book. It is 75 years since the landings at ...

Book Review: HMAS Shropshire

Date, John C., RANVR (Rtd) · Jun 29, 1990 ·

HMAS Shropshire by Stan Nicholls Published by The Naval Historical Society of Australia Published December 1989. 315 pp. Photos. Profile views. Press cuttings. Maps. Index. Limited edition. Hard cover. To ...

Book Review: Silencing debate on Shropshire

Book reviewer · Mar 28, 1990 ·

Mr Stan Nicholls wants to silence debate on what did and did not happen to HMAS Shropshire during World War II. So he has written a 330-page hard-cover book on ...

Book Review: Seagulls, Cruisers, and Catapults

Book reviewer · Dec 19, 1989 ·

By Ray Jones, 134 pages, Illustrated, Pelorus Publications, Tasmania – 1989 This fascinating book is not only a history of the amphibian aircraft used by the Royal Australian Navy but a ...

Book Review: Australian and New Zealand Warships 1914-1945

Weaver, Trevor · Jun 21, 1984 ·

Title: Australian and New Zealand Warships 1914-1945 Author: Ross Gillett This book is published by Doubleday Australia with a suggested retail price of $35.00. It is the latest published book ...

No. 191 – the Tasmanian Torpedo Boat

NHSA Webmaster · Mar 30, 1983 ·

THE TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT decided in 1883 to form an engineer torpedo corps, and by 11th June that year the unit was in operation. Commanded by Captain Boddam, and with Lieutenant ...

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Formation of the Royal New Zealand Navy

Tonson, A.E. · Sep 28, 1981 ·

TO UNDERSTAND how the Royal New Zealand Navy came into being it is necessary to look back to World War I and the preceding years, and to follow through the ...

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NZS Amokura – New Zealand’s First Training Ship

A.N. Other · Sep 28, 1981 ·

LITTLE IS KNOWN in Australia of Amokura, being a training ship operated by the New Zealand Government from 1905 until 1921, but by her former name of HMS Sparrow she ...

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Success & Failure – The Story of the Torpedo Gunboat

Kurumba · Mar 25, 1981 ·

ORIGINALLY THERE WERE THIRTY-THREE BUILT, comprising five classes in all. They were the torpedo gunboats of the Royal Navy, a smaller but faster variant of the traditional cruiser, but capable ...

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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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New South Wales Naval Forces

A.N. Other · Sep 30, 1975 ·

This article appeared in The Navy and Army Illustrated dated 15th October 1897. The New South Wales Naval Brigade was the least developed of the Colonial Navies for the obvious ...

Origins of the QUEENSLAND Navy

A.N. Other · Jun 30, 1975 ·

Old Thunder and Lightning – the Origins of the Queensland Navy IT WAS A RUSSIAN SCARE in the eighteen seventies that caused the Queensland Government of the day to form ...

Book Review: Australian Naval Administration 1900-1939

Book reviewer · Jun 23, 1974 ·

Author – Robert Hyslop It is fitting that the two most important works on the organisation and administration of the Royal Australian Navy should be written by a Secretary and ...

Australian Naval History on 13 May 1884

On This Day · May 13, 1884 ·

HMQS GAYUNDAH, (gunboat), was launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England. ...

Australian Naval History on 29 December 1860

On This Day · Dec 29, 1860 ·

The Naval Brigades of HMS PELORUS, (wood screw corvette), flagship of the Australian Station, and HMCS VICTORIA, landed at Kairau, New Zealand, to support British troops under attack from Maoris. ...

Australian Naval History on 19 December 1860

On This Day · Dec 19, 1860 ·

HMCS VICTORIA, (CMDR Norman, RN), landed a detachment of seamen, and captured Matarikoriko Pa, New Zealand. ...

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