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Throwing a Party: The Naval Ball of 1899

A.N. Other · Dec 27, 2021 ·

Colin Randall, one of our venerable archivists, discovered some newspaper cuttings from well over a century past which perhaps reminds us of how things were done when a celebration was ...

A Tribute to Norman Rivett

Editorial Staff · Jun 16, 2021 ·

  Norman (Norm) Rivett, an esteemed founding father of the Naval Historical Society, passed over the bar on 8 March 2021 just shy of his 96th birthday. He will be ...

Trouble with the Neighbours

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

By Colin Randall Garden Island has always had trouble with the neighbours. The earliest recorded was in 1788 and the latest in January 2020. Over the intervening 232 years neighbours ...

The HMAS Parramatta Memorials

Editorial Staff · Dec 19, 2020 ·

In this our 50th year it is well to reflect on some of the more important projects undertaken by the Society and none is perhaps more worthy than conceiving a ...

Kings Cross in World War II

A.N. Other · Jun 29, 2020 ·

By Nick Hordern In 2020 we celebrate the 75th anniversary year of the opening of the Captain Cook Dock which joined Garden Island to the mainland and we gained a ...

Occasional Paper 70: The Ship’s Garden – GARDEN ISLAND

Editorial Staff · Feb 11, 2020 ·

By Colin Randall Colin is a Committee member, volunteer researcher and tour guide of the Naval Historical Society of Australia with a particular interest in the history of Garden Island.  ...

Occasional Paper 69: The Naval Garden on Garden Island, Sydney

A.N. Other · Dec 17, 2019 ·

December 2019 By Colin Randall Colin is a volunteer researcher with the Naval Historical Society of Australia and a tour guide for its heritage tours of the Hill. He lived ...

Harry’s Café de Wheels

A.N. Other · Mar 26, 2019 ·

By Ray Vidler The story of ‘Harry’s Café de Wheels’ goes back to the Great Depression years of the 1930s. With the world on the brink of a devastating war, ...

Letter: Villers Bretonneux Museum – Garden Island Dockyard crest

Letter Writer · Sep 24, 2018 ·

Dear Editor, Some years ago when I was serving in the office of the Naval Historical Society a letter was received with a copy of a photograph of a Garden ...

Garden Island Rangefinding

Haynes, Fred · Sep 24, 2018 ·

Before the days of radar an array of optical rangefinders was an important feature of nearly all warships. In Royal Naval vessels, including those of the Dominions, these were mostly ...

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