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The Special Service Squadron – An episode in the peacetime history of theRoyal Navy 1923-1924

A.N. Other · Jun 6, 2019 ·

Rohan Goyne The ‘World Cruise’ of a special service squadron of the Royal Navy was an inter-war episode of flag waving across the world’s oceans from arguably a declining world ...

Steam Picket Boats: Some Reminiscences

Editorial Staff · Dec 21, 2015 ·

 In the last (September 2015) edition of this magazine we asked Leyland Wilkinson, the author of a Letter to the Editor on Picket Boats if he might favour us with ...

RANVR – The Forgotten Few

Wright, Ken · Dec 5, 2008 ·

When Hitler declared war on Great Britain in 1939, here in Australia, the Prime Minister Robert Menzies addressed the nation on 3 September: ‘Fellow Australians, it is my melancholy duty ...

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Service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1940 – 1946

Buckley, Lieutenant N.W. AM RNVR · Dec 15, 2002 ·

A short account of some wartime experiences – Awarded Second Prize, Naval Officers Club Literary Prize 2001 THE OUTBREAK OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR in September 1939 caught most people, ...

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The chase and sinking of the ‘Bismarck’

Patterson, W.R, Captain, RN · Mar 1, 2000 ·

The Commander-in-Chief, having received information that the Bismarck had put to sea, made suitable disposition of the forces at his disposal and sailed in HMS King George V, accompanied by ...

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HMS Hood Memorial

Date, John C., RANVR (Rtd) · Sep 1, 1997 ·

Memorials to the loss of naval ships in UK are seldom seen but there is one of world-wide interest. The old Parish Church of Boldre, the building of which commenced ...

Letters: Convoy to Suez – 1941

Letter Writer · Mar 6, 1995 ·

I am writing in connection with Mr Hilton’s enquiry in “Navy News” May number of the convoy to Suez which left the Clyde on 22nd May 1941. This was convoy WS ...

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