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HMAS Canberra I

Occasional Paper 14: HMAS Canberra and the Battle of Savo Island

A.N. Other · May 17, 2025 ·

LCDR Mackenzie Jesse Gregory RAN Ret, (9/02/1922- 27/08/2014) was tomy mind a fine example of the qualities a Naval Officer needed to have. He could communicate well, wasa leader of ...

Occasional Paper 61: From a Periscope to a Cricket Pitch in a Matter of Days: The Surreal Nature of War

A.N. Other · Aug 3, 2019 ·

August 2019 By Florence Livery My father, Panos (known as Pino) George Livery died in 1996.  Fortunately for us, he left behind a very rich source of history, his World ...

HMAS Canberra (1) and her White Ensign

Editorial Staff · Dec 10, 2018 ·

Some months ago the Naval Historical Society (NHS) was approached by Mrs Kylie Lee from Toowoomba, who from her mother’s estate came into possession of a white ensign from HMAS ...

Book Review: HMAS Canberra – Casualty of Circumstance

Book reviewer · Jun 30, 2017 ·

By Kathryn Spurling, Publishers New Holland, Sydney, 2016. Paperback, 255 pp with b & w illustrations, maps and portraits. Available most bookshops from $33.00 with discounts available. The author served ...

Book Review: A Very Rude Awakening

Book reviewer · Sep 4, 2007 ·

A Very Rude Awakening: The night the Japanese midget subs came to Sydney Harbour. By Peter Grose Allen & Unwin Reviewed by Tim Duchesne On 31 May 1942, three cruisers, ...

HMS Danae in Adelaide – Christmas 1936

Whitehouse, John · Mar 16, 2003 ·

In 1944/45 John Burfield was Lieutenant in Command HMS Byron, but in 1936 he was a Midshipman aboard HMS Danae. He gave me this account of Christmas in South Australia, ...

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Memorial: HMAS Canberra lost at the Battle of Savo Island

Sinfield, Peter · Sep 10, 2002 ·

Their Excellencies the Governor-General the Right Reverend Doctor Peter Hollingworth AC OBE and Mrs Hollingworth attended the 60th anniversary, Memorial Service in Canberra to commemorate the loss of the first ...

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Obituary: Admiral Sir Anthony Synnot KBE AO (1922-2001)

A.N. Other · Dec 9, 2001 ·

Born at Corowa, NSW and educated at Geelong Grammar School. Anthony Synnot joined the RAN as a cadet midshipman in 1939 as a Special Entry and trained in Britain with Prince ...

Cedric H Ashton MBE (1910-2001) – Artist, Musician, Sailor

Date, John C., RANVR (Rtd) · Sep 8, 2001 ·

In the company of Cedric Ashton one covers a tranquillity of life – artist, musician, sailor and a man’s man of capital ship dimensions! Cedric spent his teenage years in ...

The Role of the RAN in the Liberation of the Philippines

Royle, Guy, Admiral · Mar 30, 2001 ·

An address by RADM Guy Griffiths, AO, DSO, DSC, RAN Retd at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne (Oct 2000) Together with the widely dispersed set-backs in late 1941 – early ...

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Obituary: Harry Train 1918-1999

Newspaper, Daily Telegraph · Dec 23, 1999 ·

Born: Millthorpe, October 26, 1918 Died: Balmain, May 23, 1999 Harry Train gave 30 years of his life to serving his country with the RAN. After enlisting in 1936 as ...

Captain Harry L. Howden OBE, CBE, RAN

Howden, Patrick ffyske · Sep 1, 1999 ·

Material in this article is from a paper “Portrait of my Father” by Dr Patrick ffyske Howden and is used with Dr Howden’s kind permission. Captain Harry L. Howden was ...

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HMAS Canberra’s Crest – Return from P&O Liner Canberra

Dedman, Aub · Jun 27, 1998 ·

On the 24th April, 1964 a small group of survivors from HMAS Canberra met on board the P&O Liner Canberra to present to the captain a replica of HMAS Canberra’s crest, i.e., the ...

The Naming of USS Canberra (Follow-up Article)

Bradford, John · Mar 6, 1997 ·

I read with interest the file correspondence on the naming of the USN Cruiser, the USS Canberra in the September 96 issue. In June 1994 while at US Naval Institute ...

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The Naming of USS “Canberra” – 1942

Hobden, D.T. · Sep 5, 1996 ·

The following correspondence is self-evident and highlights the warm relationship between the USN and the RAN during WWII. Canberra Dated September 1, 1942 Recd 9:43 a.m., 2nd Secretary of State, ...

Obituary: John Bastock RAN 1908-1996: Naval Artist

Zammitt, Alan · Sep 5, 1996 ·

RAN serviceman, naval artist, writer. Born Sydney, February 18, 1908. Died Padstow, July 26, 1996, aged 88. In 1913, when he was five years old, John Bastock perched on his ...

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Obituary: Rear Admiral Bryn Mussared (1917-1995)

A.N. Other · Mar 2, 1996 ·

Rear Admiral Bryn Mussared was born in 1917 in Semaphore SA, and entered the Navy in 1932. On passing out from the Naval College, he was awarded ‘maximum time’ and the ...

Obituary: Commander Arthur Stanley Storey (1909 – 1995)

Cleary, Brian, Commodore, RAN (Rtd) · Mar 2, 1996 ·

Arthur Stanley Storey was 13 years old when selected to enter the Royal Australian Naval College in 1923 as one of 12 Cadet Midshipmen. His peers were quick to note ...

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German Raiders in the Indian Ocean – 1941

Prior, Russ · Mar 6, 1995 ·

January, 1941 was the month when problems caused by German raiders in the Indian Ocean increased. The fa­mous armed merchant cruisers ATLANTIS and PINGUIN were now joined by the pocket ...

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Letters: HMAS Canberra Memorial

Letter Writer · Dec 6, 1994 ·

I was interested to see in the June 1994 edition a reproduction of a memorial plate for HMAS CANBERRA at Honiara in the Solomon Islands. Having served in this ship ...

Biography of Lieutenant Commander R.W. Rankin RAN, and the loss of HMAS Yarra

Swinden, Greg · Sep 11, 1994 ·

“In the early morning of the 4th March, 1942 the following ships of the No. 2 Fleet were cruising in the area Latitude South 12° 15′ Longitude East 1100 10′; ...

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Book Review: The Shame of Savo Island

Book reviewer · Sep 11, 1994 ·

The Battle of Savo Island in which HMAS CANBERRA was lost has been the subject of many books, analyses and articles, but in his powerful and enthralling work the author ...

Book Review: Lost ships of Guadalcanal

Book reviewer · Sep 11, 1994 ·

THE LOST SHIPS OF GUADALCANAL By Robert D. Ballard, Published by Warner/Madison Press This is another book by one of the world’s foremost oceanographers and undersea explorers. Robert Ballard is already ...

Captain Frank Edmund Getting, RAN – 1899-1942

Smith, Peter · Jun 11, 1994 ·

Frank Edmund Getting was born on 30 July, 1899, the son of Mr. and Mrs. P.E. Getting of Quarantine Street, Manly, New South Wales. In 1913 Frank applied for entry ...

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Book Review: HMAS Canberra – Iron Bottom Sound

A.N. Other · Dec 12, 1993 ·

HMAS Canberra lies at the bottom of Ironbottom Sound, her eight-inch guns still reaching vainly for the Imperial Japanese enemy which surprised and overwhelmed her with a hurricane of shell ...

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