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Submarines

Book Review: “Safe to Dive – Submarine Support in Sydney 1914 to 1999”

A.N. Other · Aug 27, 2023 ·

“Safe to Dive – Submarine Support in Sydney 1914 to 1999” by John Jeremy was published by The Naval Historical Society of Australia in 2023, under licence agreement with the ...

Book Review: Sea Monsters – Savage Submarine Commanders of WWII

Book reviewer · Jun 26, 2022 ·

 Sea Monsters – Savage Submarine Commanders of WWII, by Tony Matthews. Soft cover of 348 pages with b&w photographs. Published by Big Sky Publishing, Sydney, 2021. This book discusses the ...

The Seas of Change: Integrating Women aboard Australian Submarines

A.N. Other · Jun 25, 2022 ·

By LEUT L.M. Dunsmore RAN Earlier this year this essay was awarded the Naval Historical Society History Prize from candidates of the New Entry Officer Course 65. Publication was withheld ...

Occasional Paper 107: Dutch Submarine K IX, Netherlands East Indies Naval Forces, Under US Navy Operational Control, then RAN Control as HMAS K9 In SWPA During WWII

A.N. Other · Mar 31, 2021 ·

By Peter Dunn OAM The Dutch submarine K IX is known to many who are familiar with the Japanese midget submarine attack in Sydney Harbour on the night of 31 ...

Israeli Naval Submarine Dakar

Editorial Staff · Mar 27, 2020 ·

Earlier this year (2019) while filling in time during heavy morning traffic in Haifa and passing the Naval Museum a tour guide related a story about the conning tower from ...

Occasional Paper 46: Lieutenant Kenneth Robert Hudspeth DSC, RANVR

A.N. Other · Feb 12, 2019 ·

Lieutenant Kenneth Robert Hudspeth, Distinguished Service Cross and 2 Bars, RANVR, WWII Lieutenant Kenneth Robert Hudspeth, RANVR was one of many Royal Australian Naval personnel whose service in Royal Navy ...

A Hundred-Year-Old Mystery Solved: What Really Happened to AE1

A.N. Other · Dec 9, 2018 ·

This important commentary by Rear Admiral Peter Briggs AO CSC RAN (Rtd) provides a summary of research that led to the successful discovery of the remains of AE1by MV Fugro ...

Occasional Paper 29: Captain Frederick Melbourne Piggott’s Submarine Service

Piggott, Lieut. Cdr. F.M., RD, MNI, RNR. Rtd., · Oct 29, 2018 ·

June 2018 Captain Frederick Melbourne Piggott RD RNR was born in the UK in April 1915 and moved to Australia in 1943 where he trained young men to handle a ...

Occasional Paper 26: Salvage of the German Seehunde Midget Submarine

A.N. Other · Oct 29, 2018 ·

May 2018 Roger Buxton, an active member of the Society’s Victorian Chapter obtained the original, report of the 1945 recovery of a German Seehunde class midget submarine by Lieutenant V ...

Occasional Paper 25: Recovery of German Midget Submarine and Torpedo, Dover, January 1945

A.N. Other · Oct 29, 2018 ·

April 2018 Report by LEUT J.V.Steele RNVR, DTM(I) Roger Buxton, an active member of the Society’s Victorian Chapter has obtained two original, typed reports of the 1945 recovery of German ...

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