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Scrap Iron Flotilla/Tobruk Ferry

Book Review: The Scrap Iron Flotilla

Book reviewer · Mar 8, 2023 ·

The Scrap Iron Flotilla by Mike Carlton. William Heinemann Australia. Paperback of 448 pages. rrp $34.99 On Sunday September 3rd 1939, history was tumbling over itself. In the mess decks ...

Book Review: The Scrap Iron Flotilla – Five valiant destroyers and the Australian war in the Mediterranean.

Book reviewer · Sep 16, 2022 ·

By Mike Carlton, published by Random House Australia. A 448-page illustrated paperback with photographs. Available at all good booksellers from about $30.00. Some chroniclers are ideal authors for their subject ...

The Tobruk Run – The Loss of HMS Auckland

A.N. Other · Jun 25, 2022 ·

By Andreas Biermann A 1200-ton general purpose sloop about to enter the building program was assigned the name HMS Heron, but was renamed and commissioned as HMS Auckland on 16 ...

Occasional Paper 81: Recognition for Scrap Iron Flotilla

Editorial Staff · Jun 24, 2020 ·

The Society was recently gifted a package of assorted papers and photographs collected by the late Petty officer Arthur James Collins. Collins was called up in January 1938 and served ...

Book Review: Tobruk and Beyond: War Notes from the Mediterranean Station 1941–1943.

Book reviewer · Sep 24, 2018 ·

 By Albert Lawrence Poland, Published by Halstead Press, Canberra, 2018. Hard cover, 176 pp with b&w illustrations, maps and portraits. Available from booksellers at about $33.00. Peter Poland, the editor ...

Occasional Paper 3: Tobruk – The Lifting of the Seige

A.N. Other · Dec 1, 2016 ·

December 2016 December 9, 2016 is the 75th anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Tobruk, the port on the north coast of Libya, that proved such a thorn ...

Book Review: Flip Side War

Book reviewer · Sep 27, 2005 ·

Title: Flip Side War: Recollections of the author’s experiences in the RAN, World War II Author: Ean McDonald Publisher: Hesperian Press – Carlisle WA 6101 ISBN 0 85905 353 9 ...

Wounded by a Tin of Peaches

Cooper, C.G.M., CPO, RAN · Jun 30, 2005 ·

The Tobruk Spud Run 1941 The three Services, Navy, Army and Air Force were as dissimilar as chalk and cheese, yet we were all bent on one purpose, to beat ...

Obituary: Commodore Rodney Rhoades – The man who fed Tobruk

A.N. Other · Apr 27, 1992 ·

Commodore Rodney Rhoades RAN, who commanded HMAS Vendetta of the celebrated “Scrap Iron Flotilla” which supplied Tobruk during the World War II siege, has died in Sydney. He was 83. ...

The RAN’s Destroyers

Ramsay, O.G. · Mar 11, 1991 ·

Surely destroyers are the backbone of our Royal Australian Navy. Thirty-nine destroyers have served in the RAN since Foundation in 1911, from our first destroyers – HMA Ships PARRAMATTA (1), ...

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The Tobruk Ferry – Alias The Spud Run

A.N. Other · Sep 3, 1990 ·

When Tobruk was captured and later invested, it had been expected that the garrison could be supplied by small ships including ‘A’ lighters (Tank Landing Craft) in convoy from Mersah ...

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The Tobruk Run

Rhoades, Commodore Rodney DSC RAN Retired · Dec 31, 1979 ·

WHILE I WAS IN COMMAND of HMAS Vendetta in 1940-41, she ran a record number of trips to Tobruk. If my memory serves me right we went into that port ...

Nestor died slowly

Lind, L.J. · Dec 31, 1972 ·

(An extract from N Class by L. J. Lind and M. A. Payne) At 1806, during a high level bombing attack, Nestor was straddled by three 1,000 pound bombs. One ...

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Australian Naval History on 8 December 1941

On This Day · Dec 8, 1941 ·

HMA Ships VAMPIRE and VENDETTA, (destroyers), and BURNIE, GOULBURN, BENDIGO, and MARYBOROUGH, (corvettes), were at Singapore when Japan mounted her first air raid at 0300. MANOORA was also at Singapore, ...

Australian Naval History on 5 December 1941

On This Day · Dec 5, 1941 ·

HMAS YARRA and HMS FLAMINGO, (sloops), were heavily attacked by German bombers between Mersa Matruh and Tobruk. FLAMINGO was hit in the engine room and was taken in tow by ...

Australian Naval History on 18 December 1939

On This Day · Dec 18, 1939 ·

German Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, described the arrival of the Australian Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean as ‘a consignment of junk’, and ‘Australia’s Scrap Iron Flotilla’. The five WWI destroyers, ...

Australian Naval History on 17 October 1933

On This Day · Oct 17, 1933 ·

The Australian Destroyer Flotilla, HMA Ships STUART, VAMPIRE, VENDETTA, VOYAGER and WATERHEN, departed Chatham and, proceeding via Suez, reached Singapore on 28 November, Darwin on 7 December and Sydney on ...

Australian Naval History on 11 October 1933

On This Day · Oct 11, 1933 ·

HMA Ships STUART, VAMPIRE, VENDETTA, VOYAGER and WATERHEN commissioned into the RAN from the RN. ...

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