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Occasional Paper 151: The Christmas Books

Editorial Staff · Dec 1, 2022 ·

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Occasional Paper 132: The First Admiral: Admiral Sir G. Francis Hyde, KCB, CVO, CBE

Editorial Staff · Mar 2, 2022 ·

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Occasional Paper 123: Royal Australian Navy 75th Anniversary Year: 1986

Gillett, Ross · Sep 25, 2021 ·

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Book Review: Aus-Ships 2021: Fifth Edition

Book reviewer · Jun 20, 2021 ·

Aus-Ships 2021: Fifth Edition by Robert Fildes and Rex Cox. The previous edition was offered as a CD and now this revised and improved edition comes as a USB. This ...

An Essay on the Forming of the Royal Australian Navy

A.N. Other · Sep 20, 2020 ·

By Midshipman Lloyd Skinner  Lloyd Skinner attended Melbourne Grammar School, where he discovered a passion for Australian political and military history. Shortly after completing secondary education in 2019 Lloyd joined ...

Occasional Paper 86: Royal Australian Navy in the Pacific War

A.N. Other · Aug 26, 2020 ·

By Richard H Pelvin and Jozef H Straczek This paper was provided courtesy of the Sea Power Centre – Australia. It was first published in 2003 and is available on ...

Palm Islands – a Naval Connection

Walter Burroughs · Jun 24, 2020 ·

By Walter Burroughs The Palm Islands and Challenger Bay affords a large sheltered deep-water anchorage, the last such facility on Australia’s east coast before reaching the northern extremity of the ...

The Navy and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

Swinden, Greg · Jun 8, 2020 ·

The world is currently combatting the Coronavirus 19 (COVID 19) which originated in China and has now spread throughout the globe. So far, Australia has fortunately been spared the worst ...

Prime Minister William Morris Hughes and his impact on Australian naval and maritime affairs: All at Sea with Billy

Editorial Staff · Jun 6, 2019 ·

To the returning servicemen Hughes was ‘the Little Digger’ a symbol of Australian self-confidence.      Geoffrey Button Formative years William Hughes, the father of William Morris Hughes, came from ...

The Royal Australian Naval College’s debt to Admiral Creswell

A.N. Other · Mar 26, 2019 ·

The following article is based on an address by Robert Hyslop to the Canberra and District Historical Society which appeared in that Society’s journal of September 1986, and still relevant ...

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