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Book Review: The Fragile Forts

Book reviewer · Sep 27, 2005 ·

Title:The Fragile Forts: The Fixed Defences of Sydney Harbour 1788-1963 Author: Peter Oppenheim, Publisher: Australian Military History Publications, Loftus NSW. The Fragile Forts is a joint venture between the Australian ...

Anti-Submarine Defences of Sydney Harbour 1942

Kennedy, David · Mar 30, 2005 ·

The British Officer-in-Charge of Australia’s anti-submarine training establishment warned Navy chiefs, four months before Japanese midget submarines attacked Sydney Harbour in May 1942, that the defences against such a raid ...

An Atlantic Convoy 1798-1799

Nicholson, Ian · Jun 1, 1999 ·

AN ATLANTIC CONVOY IN 1798-1799 INCLUDING THE CONVICT TRANSPORT HILLSBOROUGH BOUND FOR BOTANY BAY (Log extracts, HMS Amphion, Captain R.H.A. Bennett – P.R.O. Adm. 51/1264 – entries noon to noon) ...

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Book Review: The Midget Submarine Attack on Sydney

Book reviewer · Mar 11, 1991 ·

Lew Lind, Bellrope Press, 74 pages with illustrations and maps. The Japanese midget submarine attack on ships in Sydney Harbour occurred almost fifty years ago and yet is still a ...

The Blackout at Sea

Thomson, Max · Mar 4, 1989 ·

Logically, Naval history focuses on ships of the fleet and drama on the high seas, especially in times of war. Equally important for preservation in the chapters of our Naval ...

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A Peaceful Scene – Sydney 1921

A.N. Other · Mar 21, 1983 ·

H.M.A. Ships Encounter and Australia with Huon and two other “Rivers”, and Tattoo and two other S class boats laid up in Sydney Harbour in 1921. ...

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