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HMAS Shropshire

Occasional Paper 160: Shipwright First Class Patrick Daniel Murphy BEM

Editorial Staff · Apr 4, 2023 ·

The following biography is based on that prepared by the Museum of Perth for the Soldiers of Barrack Street exhibition. Included in the second part of this paper is a ...

Occasional Paper 153: County Class ships of the Royal Navy: A photographic review

A.N. Other · Dec 1, 2022 ·

By Conrad Waters The following feature was first published in the Ships Monthly magazine and subsequently by the Heritage Machines website on 19th October 2022. The Royal Navy’s series of ...

Salute to Three Good Men

David Michael · Jan 6, 2022 ·

During the recent festive season, the Naval Historical Society of Australia lost three long term members whose service to the nation and community in peace and war is a fine ...

Luzon: A 75th Anniversary Australian Battlefield Tour of the Philippines – Part 2

A.N. Other · Mar 27, 2020 ·

By Paul Baker On the morning of 15 December 2019, a small ceremony was held at the Australian War Memorial in the forecourt of the Maritime Academy of Asia and ...

Australians in the Decisive Thrust KING II – The Leyte Landings

A.N. Other · Dec 25, 2019 ·

 By Paul Baker Seventy-five years ago, on 18 October 1944, beaten only by the fast minesweepers and the attack forces securing the mouth of the Gulf, the crew of HMAS ...

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 ...

The Admiralty Islands

A.N. Other · Mar 26, 2019 ·

By David Mattiske Recent announcements that the United States will partner Papua New Guinea and Australia on an initiative to further develop a naval base on Manus Island has aroused ...

Scapa Flow Revisited

A.N. Other · Dec 13, 2018 ·

By Walter Burroughs The name Scapa Flow was synonymous with naval operations in both world wars as a safe anchorage for vast fleets seeking to control access to the seaborne ...

The Battles for Leyte Gulf: where Australian ships fought in one of the greatest battles in naval history

A.N. Other · Sep 27, 2016 ·

By David Scott  David Horace Ford Scott grew up on a soldier-settler block near Holbrook, NSW but his parents were forced to walk off the property during the Depression and ...

The Royal Australian Navy at Leyte Gulf October 1944

Kingsley Perry · Sep 23, 2014 ·

By Kingsley Perry The series of sea battles at and around Leyte Gulf in October 1944 marked a turning point in the Pacific war. Despite together representing the greatest sea ...

They Also Served – Supply Assistant John Norman Carr Hordern (1924 – 2013)

A.N. Other · Dec 24, 2013 ·

‘They also serve who only stand and wait’ is the final line taken from the great English poet John Milton’s sonnet on his blindness. In a modern context this implies ...

Manus Memories

A.N. Other · Dec 13, 2013 ·

By David Mattiske A recent article in the June 2013 edition of the NHR brought back memories to the author who served in HMAS Shropshire during an important shore bombardment ...

Kamikazes, Suicide Bombers and Us

Shinkfield, Des · Dec 10, 2010 ·

The following speech was delivered to the Australian Naval Historical Society on Monday, 26 June, 2006 Thank you for the opportunity to speak about kamikazes. But let me enlarge on ...

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Japanese Surrender in Toyko-from Warramunga’s Surgeon

Rischbieth, H.G., Surgeon-Lieutenant, RAN · Jun 5, 2008 ·

Henry George Rischbieth, second son of Harold and Eileen Rischbieth (nee de la Poer Beresford) served in the Royal Australian Navy as a Surgeon Lieutenant during World War II. He ...

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Leadership: Vice Admiral Sir John Augustine Collins

Dennard, Luke, Midshipman, RAN · Dec 4, 2007 ·

This essay will discuss the role of Sir John Collins in reference to his career in the Mediterranean and Pacific theatres of World War II as captain and commodore in ...

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Able Seaman Harry Mason

Hordern, John · Mar 10, 2005 ·

Those of us who were fortunate in knowing him will be saddened to learn of Harry’s death earlier this year, aged 93. Harry was an Englishman, obviously from a good ...

HMAS Australia – Kamikaze Attack 1944

de Lisle, Roger · Sep 30, 2004 ·

This year (2004) marks the 60th anniversary of the first kamikaze attack on HMAS Australia. As Roger de Lisle reports, Japanese suicide pilots hurled their aircraft onto Allied ships with ...

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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Radar Equipment, HMAS Shropshire

Slatyer, R., Lieut. (P), RANVR · Sep 18, 1998 ·

When “Shropshire” was being prepared in England for handing over to the RAN in 1942/43 she was fitted out with a full complement of the current RN equipment. (This is ...

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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HMAS Shropshire – WW2

Yeomans, Jim · Sep 11, 1994 ·

HMAS SHROPSHIRE was a lucky ship! All drafts to the U.K. safely traversed the Atlantic at the height of U-Boat sinkings and not a man was lost through enemy action. ...

Australian Naval History on 14 March 1993

On This Day · Mar 14, 1993 ·

CMDR Warwick Seymour Bracegirdle, DSC and 2 Bars, RAN, died at his home in London. The award of three DSC’s, coupled with two MID, was a rare achievement. His first ...

Leyte Gulf – the RAN in the Biggest Naval Battle of all time

Pettit, Geoff · Sep 12, 1992 ·

“Last night, in Surigao Strait, the Philippines, the Tokyo Express met the American Limited, and was completely derailed.” “This is the U.S. Armed Services radio in San Diego, California.” Thus, ...

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Obituary: Rear-Admiral H.A.S SHOWERS, CBE

A.N. Other · Sep 11, 1991 ·

With his death an historic link with the beginning of the RAN has been severed as Rear Admiral H.A. Showers, CBE was the last survivor of the first entry of ...

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