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HMAS Nepal

Occasional Paper 128: HMAS Nepal

Swinden, Greg · Dec 7, 2021 ·

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HMAS Nepal and Operation ES – June and July 1942

Letter Writer · Mar 29, 2017 ·

The Society received the following letter which explains this unusual circumstance. A recent application to the Defence Honours and Awards Tribunal has cast light on a hitherto unknown operation undertaken ...

Book Review: The Kellys

Book reviewer · Mar 18, 2004 ·

The Kellys – British J, K & N Class Destroyers of World War II By Christopher Langtree Published by Chatham Publishing, Kent, England Distributed in Australia by Peribo 58 Beaumont Street, ...

Attack on Sabang, Northern Sumatra, 1944

Cox, Leonard J. · Sep 18, 1998 ·

This article refers to the British Eastern Fleet’s first attack on Sabang in Northern Sumatra, in April, 1944. To relieve some of the pressure on his own forces, Admiral King had ...

N Class – The Bird Cage

Law, George B. · Apr 12, 1993 ·

Some former “N” Class matelots may remember the additional bit of structural hardware, shaped like a bird-cage, on top of a mast above the four inch gun on the NEPAL ...

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Letters: A South Atlantic Incident

Letter Writer · Jun 11, 1991 ·

I wish to make the following correction to my article ”A SOUTH ATLANTIC INCIDENT” published in the September, 1990 edition of the Naval Historical Review. An ex Communicator might be forgiven ...

The RAN’s Destroyers

Ramsay, O.G. · Mar 11, 1991 ·

Surely destroyers are the backbone of our Royal Australian Navy. Thirty-nine destroyers have served in the RAN since Foundation in 1911, from our first destroyers – HMA Ships PARRAMATTA (1), ...

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HMAS Nepal – a South Atlantic Incident

Cox, Leonard J. · Sep 3, 1990 ·

I walked out on to the upper deck of the Fleet Destroyer on the beautiful afternoon on August 3rd, 1942. Two ‘N’ Class Destroyers, the Australian Nepal and the Dutchman ...

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Westralia – Appleleaf

Ramsay, George · Mar 19, 1990 ·

It was interesting recently, when the ex RFA APPLELEAF was acquired and joined the ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY, to be renamed WESTRALIA, (the Second Ship of that name in the RAN ...

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Night of Shipboard Terror – HMAS Nizam

Newspaper, The West Australian · Jun 9, 1986 ·

Courtesy of The West Australian Tuesday, February 11, 1986 HUGH SCHMITT REPORTS on a little- known naval tragedy off the West Australian coast 41 years ago today. Able-bodied Seaman Derek ...

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