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This Man Howden – Captain Harry L. Howden, CBE, RAN

Scrivner, R. · Dec 31, 1974 ·

No member of the Royal Australian Navy who served in wartime could show as much appreciation of their captain as did the crew, officers and ratings of the three Amphion ...

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Perth Died Bravely

Makin, Hon. Norman J O · Jun 30, 1974 ·

[Statement by the Minister for the Navy (the Hon. Norman J.O.Makin, M.P.) in the Australian House of Representatives, 2nd March 1945] THIS RECONSTRUCTION of the Java Sea Battle, and of ...

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Captain Joseph Burnett RAN

Burnett, Cdr. P.R. RAN (Ret.) · Dec 31, 1973 ·

Captain Joseph Burnett was a product of an era in the Royal Australian Navy which is now legendary. A first entry to the Royal Australian Naval College, he obtained colours ...

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Captain H. M. L. Waller DSO and BAR, RAN

Owen, Commander P.O.L. · Aug 31, 1972 ·

‘Hector Macdonald Laws Waller will always remain in my mind as one of the very finest types of Australian Naval Officer. Full of good cheer, a great sense of humour, ...

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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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