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Fairmile

Occasional Paper 175: Which Fairmile is that?

Lewis, Tom, AOM, Lieutenant RAN · Dec 4, 2023 ·

by Dr Tom Lewis The wreck of the Ataluma is a sight unknown to the many visitors to Darwin’s popular East Point.  This is not surprising, for the wreck of ...

Occasional Paper 152: HMAS Rushcutter

Lorraine Fildes · Dec 1, 2022 ·

On 1 August 1940, the Naval Depot (sited in Rushcutters Bay Park, Sydney) was commissioned as HMAS Rushcutter.  This former Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base has an illustrious past. It ...

Roylen Cruises and their fleet of Fairmiles

A.N. Other · Dec 29, 2021 ·

By Walter Burroughs  A visit to an Opportunity Shop browsing through other people’s junk is often time wasting. And so it was while wasting time that an unwanted, ubiquitous, one-dollar ...

A Christmas Story

Editorial Staff · Dec 22, 2019 ·

The naval service of Temporary Lieutenant Ernest Joseph Huson Christmas RANVR was for a relatively short time and this was mostly overseas. His story is historically interesting but misfortune follows ...

An Essay on the Royal Australian Navy’s Involvement in Support of the Compromised SRD Operations in Timor 1943-1945

Letter Writer · Sep 29, 2019 ·

By Sub Lieutenant Nicholas Seton RAN …I feel so sad. What a waste – what a stuff up. It makes one feel a little bitter about the poor intelligence andcommunications ...

Torres Strait – Small-ship Refuelling Stopovers

Thomson, Max · Mar 5, 2008 ·

Thursday Island and nearby Horn Island in the Torres Strait were always welcome stopovers for fuel or water for so many WWII Fairmile patrol vessels as they ‘went north’ to ...

Book Review: Fairmile ships of the Royal Australian Navy

Book reviewer · Dec 9, 2002 ·

Fairmile ships of the Royal Australian Navy by Peter Evans, AM Australian Military History Publications, 13 Veronica Place, Loftus. 2232. $40.00 Reviewed by Max Thomson Of all the ‘wet’ ships ...

St Nazaire – The Greatest Commando Raid of WWII

Evans, P. · Mar 1, 1999 ·

The following article is copyright© and has been prepared by P. Evans, on behalf of the Fairmile Association, for the Naval Historical Society of Australia Inc. It is for their ...

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FAIRMILES – Overview Of Vessels

Price, David, OAM · Dec 11, 1994 ·

The “B” Type Fairmile was a wooden hulled motor launch of approximately 90 tons displacement. It had a length of 112′, a beam of 17’10” and a draught of 3’8″ forward ...

Sparrow Force – Timor 1942-1943 – Under false colours?

A.N. Other · Dec 11, 1994 ·

In February 1942 when the Japanese army invaded Timor a small band of Australians – the `Sparrow Force’ – took to the mountains and began a guerilla war against the ...

Royal New Zealand Navy’s Fairmile Patrol Craft (Part 2)

Cassells, Ken · Sep 11, 1991 ·

Conditions on this leg were easier but there was still a long swell to contend with. At Noumea we were officially handed over to the Commander South West Pacific for ...

Royal New Zealand Navy’s Fairmile Patrol Craft (Part 1)

Cassells, Ken · Jun 11, 1991 ·

At the beginning of World War II the principal threat to shipping in New Zealand waters was perceived as the German raider, Lessons learned during the Great War pointed to ...

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Unique Shield for Hobart Museum

Thomson, Max · Mar 11, 1991 ·

Navy history keeps bobbing up in the most unexpected places. Browsing through an antique shop ‘up north’ a Navy enthusiast spotted the wartime shield of the RAN 817 Squadron Fleet ...

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