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Letters: Adelaide’s Boarding Party

Letter Writer · Sep 4, 2007 ·

Dear Editor, Although I’m sure others will have already raised this, the one thing that the article about Adelaide‘s Boarding Party in the June issue failed to mention is that ...

Letters: HMAS Quickmatch to the Rescue

Letter Writer · Sep 4, 2007 ·

Dear Editor, I refer to the article HMAS Quickmatch to the Rescue by Max Hayles. I am most grateful to him for revealing that it was Quickmatch which came to ...

Australian Naval History on 7 July 2007

On This Day · Jul 7, 2007 ·

The Armidale class patrol frigate HMAS CHILDERS was commissioned at Cairns, Queensland. ...

Australian Naval History on 2 July 2007

On This Day · Jul 2, 2007 ·

HMAS Toowoomba II returned to Australia after operations in the Middle East region. ...

Australian Naval History on 28 June 2007

On This Day · Jun 28, 2007 ·

The Armidale class patrol boat HMAS WOLLONGONG was commissioned at Sydney, New South Wales. ...

Australian Naval History on 5 June 2007

On This Day · Jun 5, 2007 ·

HMAS Anzac (III) departed Fleet Base West for Operation CATALYST ...

HMAS Quickmatch – Medical Rescue – 1944

Hayles, Max · Jun 4, 2007 ·

A slice of Naval life…I’m sure we’ve all been involved in something similar during our life at sea. On September 30th 1944, HMAS Quickmatch was emergency destroyer in Trincomalee harbour, ...

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Korean Waters – Tribal Class Destroyers

Nesdale, Iris · Jun 4, 2007 ·

This is a slightly abbreviated version of Chapter 13 from the book Action Stations – Tribal Destroyers of the Royal Australian Navy by the late Iris Nesdale, published by the ...

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Gascoyne to the Rescue On Christmas Day 1944

Newspaper, The West Australian · Jun 4, 2007 ·

Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the West Australian newspaper late in 1949, and comes to us from Mr Paul Rooke, via his friend and fellow ex-Navy man, Graham Dennis. ...

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HMAS Adelaide – Boarding Party, Persian Gulf 2004

Johnston, Anthony, DSM, Lieutenant Commander, RAN · Jun 4, 2007 ·

Because of the remote location of the Coalition’s naval forces in the Persian Gulf, very little news about their day to day activities is reported in the Australian media, apart ...

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Australian Naval History on 11 May 2007

On This Day · May 11, 2007 ·

HMAS Ipswich II and HMAS Townsville II decommissioned ...

Australian Naval History on 13 March 2007

On This Day · Mar 13, 2007 ·

HMAS Gladstone II decommissioned ...

A Naval Career in Clearance Diving – Jake Linton

Linton, E.W. (Jake), BEM, MCD, Commander, RAN (Rtd) · Mar 4, 2007 ·

It was late 1954, I was 19 years old, married, an Able Seaman employed as a Main Gate Sentry at Naval Headquarters at Potts Point, not making enough money to ...

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Australian Naval History on 3 March 2007

On This Day · Mar 3, 2007 ·

The Armidale class patrol boat HMAS BUNDABERG was commissioned at Bundaberg, Queensland. ...

Australian Naval History on 10 February 2007

On This Day · Feb 10, 2007 ·

The Armidale class patrol boat HMAS BROOME was commissioned at Broome, Western Australia. ...

Australian Naval History on 2 February 2007

On This Day · Feb 2, 2007 ·

HMAS Dubbo II decommissioned ...

Letters: Followup on Disappearance of AE1

Letter Writer · Dec 3, 2006 ·

I was very interested in reading about the disappearance of the AE1 submarine without a trace in 1914. I have an idea that it may have been sucked down by ...

Reflections on the Sydney/Kormoran Battle 1941

Captain Peter Hore, RN · Dec 3, 2006 ·

Ninety two year old Baron Reinhold von Malapert is today the senior surviving officer of the German raider Kormoran and as Radio Officer he had a grandstand view of the ...

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Australian Naval History on 29 November 2006

On This Day · Nov 29, 2006 ·

Loss of an Australian Army Blackhawk helicopter which crashed while attempting to land on aft flight deck of HMAS Kanimbla II. It was lost over the side of the ship, ...

Australian Naval History on 10 November 2006

On This Day · Nov 10, 2006 ·

The Armidale class patrol boat HMAS ARARAT was commissioned in Melbourne, Victoria. ...

Australian Naval History on 26 October 2006

On This Day · Oct 26, 2006 ·

The last ANZAC class frigate HMAS PERTH was commissioned. ...

Australian Naval History on 7 October 2006

On This Day · Oct 7, 2006 ·

HMAS Geraldton II decommissioned ...

Australian Naval History on 29 September 2006

On This Day · Sep 29, 2006 ·

The Armidale class patrol boat HMAS MAITLAND was commissioned at Newcastle, New South Wales. ...

Book Review: Beneath Southern Seas – The Silent Service

Book reviewer · Sep 18, 2006 ·

Beneath Southern Seas – The Silent Service by Jon Davison and Tom Allibone. Published by UWA Press. rrp $65.00 Reviewed by Tim Duchesne Some might think this glossy doorstop of ...

Australian Naval History on 16 September 2006

On This Day · Sep 16, 2006 ·

HMAS Westralia II decommissioned. Since commissioning, Westralia (II) had steamed more than 457 908 nautical miles and transferred more than 400 million dollars worth of diesel. Following her decommissioning she ...

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