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Naval Historical Review

The White Ensign Club at Nowra

A.N. Other · Dec 24, 2019 ·

By Fred Dawson, with acknowledgement to Foster Emery (dec.), Albert Morrison (dec.), Len Seyffer, Robyn Florance, OAM, Alan Clark, AM and Dr John Haken. Following the commissioning in August 1949 ...

Possession Island

Editorial Staff · Dec 24, 2019 ·

Possession Island is a small and now uninhabited island of 500 hectares lying 17 km to the southwest of Cape York, but it has great significance to our nation. Just ...

The Dominion Yachtsmen Scheme: Australian Volunteers in the Royal Navy 1940-45 – Part 1

A.N. Other · Dec 24, 2019 ·

By Janet Roberts Billett Following the outbreak of war with Germany on 9 September 1939, the losses for the Royal Navy in ships and men through repeated U-boat and air ...

Clearance of Contact Moored Mines by Wire Sweeps

Turner, Mike · Dec 24, 2019 ·

By Mike Turner  It is difficult to obtain accurate numbers for the total number of sea mines that have been laid, but the estimate is about 900,000, of which about ...

Timor Submarine Rescue Operations

Editorial Staff · Dec 24, 2019 ·

One of the most significant rescue operations of Australian military forces occurred after the Japanese had overrun Dutch colonial western Timor in 1942. At this time Timor, seen as a ...

HMAS Sydney (III) and her Propellers

Editorial Staff · Dec 24, 2019 ·

We recently became aware of two propellers from HMAS Sydney (III) not far away from one another in the Shoalhaven. One was at the recently named Jervis Bay Maritime Museum ...

The Pong Su Incident – April 2003

A.N. Other · Dec 24, 2019 ·

By Dennis J. Weatherall  The end of the Vietnam War resulted in the arrival into Australia of Vietnamese refugees with the first, known as ‘Boat People’, arriving in Darwin on ...

A Christmas Story

Editorial Staff · Dec 22, 2019 ·

The naval service of Temporary Lieutenant Ernest Joseph Huson Christmas RANVR was for a relatively short time and this was mostly overseas. His story is historically interesting but misfortune follows ...

The Admiral, the Ironmaster, the Timber Merchant and the Property Developer

A.N. Other · Sep 29, 2019 ·

This is a story of three men drawn together by the magnetism of a beautiful young artists’ model. Emma Hart, a country girl very much in the image of a ...

Early History of Somerset and Thursday Island

A.N. Other · Sep 29, 2019 ·

This paper by Mr C. G. Austin, Honorary Librarian, was read to The Historical Society of Queensland Inc. on Thursday 28 April 1949 and printed in the Journal of The ...

HMAS Kiama 1944 – 1946, HMNZS Kiama 1952 – 1976

Haken, J.K., Dr · Sep 29, 2019 ·

By Dr J. K. Haken The development of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) was restricted by financial constraints, exaggerated by the onset of the Great Depression and Recovery Years. The ...

Radar in the South and Southwest Pacific as at Savo Island in August 1942

A.N. Other · Sep 29, 2019 ·

By R. W. Madsen This paper was prepared largely from notes made many years ago when I was at university and living with my grandparents. My grandfather, Sir John Madsen, ...

An Essay on the Royal Australian Navy’s Involvement in Support of the Compromised SRD Operations in Timor 1943-1945

Letter Writer · Sep 29, 2019 ·

By Sub Lieutenant Nicholas Seton RAN …I feel so sad. What a waste – what a stuff up. It makes one feel a little bitter about the poor intelligence andcommunications ...

Trouble in the Gulf – Historical and Geo-political Context

Editorial Staff · Sep 29, 2019 ·

The Strait of Hormuz separates the Persian Gulf from the Gulf of Oman; at its narrowest point this waterway is just 21 nautical miles across, from Oman to the south ...

Modern Day Pirates – Piracy under control in Asia

Editorial Staff · Sep 28, 2019 ·

The Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against ships in Asia (ReCAAP ISC) is a regional agreement between twenty countries, mainly Asian but including four European nations ...

Letter: The Moresby Disc at Somerset

Letter Writer · Sep 2, 2019 ·

As this edition of the Review contains an in-depth article on Cape York and Somerset it is opportune to include this discussion point. An example of one of the many ...

Letter: Up and Downers

Letter Writer · Sep 2, 2019 ·

We had quite a few responses to the article on Up and Downers in the June 2019 issue with the following which addresses most issues. Dear Editor I enjoyed the ...

Obituary: Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Sam Sakker, MBE, RANR (Rtd)

A.N. Other · Sep 2, 2019 ·

Sam was born in September 1937, in Harbin, the ice city of North Eastern China, but grew up in Tintsin (Tianjin), the coastal metropolis adjacent to Beijing. His parents were ...

Escape from Singapore – the Last Boat Leaves

Editorial Staff · Sep 2, 2019 ·

The June 2019 edition of this magazine contained an article The Naval Evacuation of Singapore – February 1942 which lists MV Kembong amongst forty-five vessels that escaped. Her captain is ...

HMS Australia and the William Droudge Mystery

Editorial Staff · Sep 2, 2019 ·

We know much about the WWI vintage battlecruiser HMAS Australia (I) and the WWII vintage heavy cruiser HMAS Australia (II) but very little about the first warship to carry our ...

Battleship Mikasa – Restoration

A.N. Other · Sep 2, 2019 ·

By Colin Randall After many years of visiting Japan for coal business I took my family on a holiday to this interesting country. One of the sites visited was the ...

Book Review: A Hazardous Life

Book reviewer · Jun 6, 2019 ·

  A Hazardous Life, by R. K. Forsyth and I. K. Forsyth, charts the stormy life and times of Western Australia’s first Harbour Master. Paperback, 270 pages with many illustrations ...

Letter: Victoria Crosses awarded to Civilians

Letter Writer · Jun 6, 2019 ·

The topic of Victoria Crosses (March 2019) never ceases to arouse interest and we have two similar emails from Ken Green and Tony Maskell who invite us to visit the ...

Letter: They Also Served– LCDR Frank Derek Simon RD RANR (S)

Letter Writer · Jun 6, 2019 ·

  Mike Turner says he found the article on Frank Simon (March 2019) most interesting, particularly the Merchant/RANR(S) overlap. However, one small error is noted on page 22: It is ...

The Special Service Squadron – An episode in the peacetime history of theRoyal Navy 1923-1924

A.N. Other · Jun 6, 2019 ·

Rohan Goyne The ‘World Cruise’ of a special service squadron of the Royal Navy was an inter-war episode of flag waving across the world’s oceans from arguably a declining world ...

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