Letters: HMAS Quickmatch to the Rescue

Letter Writer · Sep 4, 2007 ·

Dear Editor, I refer to the article HMAS Quickmatch to the Rescue by Max Hayles. I am most grateful to him for revealing that it was Quickmatch which came to ...

Australian Naval History on 7 July 2007

On This Day · Jul 7, 2007 ·

The Armidale class patrol frigate HMAS CHILDERS was commissioned at Cairns, Queensland. ...

Australian Naval History on 2 July 2007

On This Day · Jul 2, 2007 ·

HMAS Toowoomba II returned to Australia after operations in the Middle East region. ...

Australian Naval History on 28 June 2007

On This Day · Jun 28, 2007 ·

The Armidale class patrol boat HMAS WOLLONGONG was commissioned at Sydney, New South Wales. ...

Australian Naval History on 5 June 2007

On This Day · Jun 5, 2007 ·

HMAS Anzac (III) departed Fleet Base West for Operation CATALYST ...

Letters: Followup on Singapore Naval Base

Letter Writer · Jun 4, 2007 ·

Dear Editor, The article ‘Singapore Naval Base Origin and Evolution’ published in the March 2007 issue of the Naval Historical Review contains a number of issues that warrant clarification. The ...

Book Review: The Royal Australian Navy – a History

Book reviewer · Jun 4, 2007 ·

The Royal Australian Navy – a History Edited by David Stevens, published by Oxford University Press. First published in 2001 as a hardback version, reprinted several times and so well ...

Further Reflections on the Sydney/Kormoran Battle, 1941

Arundel, Richard, Captain, RAN Rtd · Jun 4, 2007 ·

The article ‘Reflections on the Sydney/Kormoran Battle 1941‘ in the December 2006 Naval Historical Review, referring to an interview with the now ninety-two year old Radio Communications Officer of the ...

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Leadership: Admiral of the Fleet Isoroku Yamamoto

NHSA Webmaster · Jun 4, 2007 ·

Editor’s Note: This essay was submitted as a graduation essay in History at the RANC, and is reproduced here with the kind permission of Lieutenant Desmond Woods, RAN, History Co-ordinator, ...

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HMAS Quickmatch – Medical Rescue – 1944

Hayles, Max · Jun 4, 2007 ·

A slice of Naval life…I’m sure we’ve all been involved in something similar during our life at sea. On September 30th 1944, HMAS Quickmatch was emergency destroyer in Trincomalee harbour, ...

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Korean Waters – Tribal Class Destroyers

Nesdale, Iris · Jun 4, 2007 ·

This is a slightly abbreviated version of Chapter 13 from the book Action Stations – Tribal Destroyers of the Royal Australian Navy by the late Iris Nesdale, published by the ...

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Gascoyne to the Rescue On Christmas Day 1944

Newspaper, The West Australian · Jun 4, 2007 ·

Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the West Australian newspaper late in 1949, and comes to us from Mr Paul Rooke, via his friend and fellow ex-Navy man, Graham Dennis. ...

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HMAS Adelaide – Boarding Party, Persian Gulf 2004

Johnston, Anthony, DSM, Lieutenant Commander, RAN · Jun 4, 2007 ·

Because of the remote location of the Coalition’s naval forces in the Persian Gulf, very little news about their day to day activities is reported in the Australian media, apart ...

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Australian Naval History on 11 May 2007

On This Day · May 11, 2007 ·

HMAS Ipswich II and HMAS Townsville II decommissioned ...

Australian Naval History on 13 March 2007

On This Day · Mar 13, 2007 ·

HMAS Gladstone II decommissioned ...

Book Review: The Indomitable Captain Matthew Flinders, RN

Book reviewer · Mar 4, 2007 ·

The Indomitable Captain Matthew Flinders, Royal Navy. By Peter Ashley. Published by Pierhead Press, England. rrp A$22.00. Reviewed by Dave Rickard The author, Peter Ashley, has spent nearly four decades ...

U-859 – From Germany to Penang

Wright, Ken · Mar 4, 2007 ·

By May 1943, Germany had lost the U-boat war in the Atlantic. U-boat losses had reached an intolerable level with the loss of 38 U-boats for May alone. The Allies ...

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Singapore Naval Base – Origin and Evolution

Periodical, RNZN Navy Today · Mar 4, 2007 ·

The warships of Commonwealth Navies regularly visit Singapore, berthed alongside the ANZUK wharf to undertake routine maintenance. This wharf was originally the Stores Basin area of HM Naval Base, built ...

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HMS Invincible – A Flawed Design

Haigh, Gideon · Mar 4, 2007 ·

The Bulletin, Friday, December 22, 2006 ‘It was hailed a century ago as a revolution in battleship design, but tragedy awaited the Invincible as the mists lifted in the Battle ...

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Georgetown, Guiana – The Riots of February 1962

Pfennigwerth, Ian · Mar 4, 2007 ·

The four Type 15 frigates of the Dartmouth Training Squadron were berthed in Bridgetown, Barbados as part of their West Indies cruise, and the RN cadets and RAN and RN ...

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A Naval Career in Clearance Diving – Jake Linton

Linton, E.W. (Jake), BEM, MCD, Commander, RAN (Rtd) · Mar 4, 2007 ·

It was late 1954, I was 19 years old, married, an Able Seaman employed as a Main Gate Sentry at Naval Headquarters at Potts Point, not making enough money to ...

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The Battle of the Atlantic – Contribution by Code Breakers

Keegan, John · Mar 4, 2007 ·

Editor’s Note: In 2006, the Review published an article tracing the history of HMAS Rushcutter during the period 1939-45, when that establishment was the primary A/S training school throughout the ...

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