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The Sound of Musical Submarines

The Sound of Musical Submarines

A.N. Other · Mar 3, 2012 ·

By Peter Judge The September 2011 edition of the Naval Historical Review contained an interesting summary on submarine warfare which brings into perspective some little known facts concerning Baron von ...

Australian Naval History on 16 December 2011

On This Day · Dec 16, 2011 ·

817 squadron decommissioned and last Sea Kings withdrawn from RAN service ...

Letter: HMS K13 Bible

Letter Writer · Dec 16, 2011 ·

I enclose the Holy Bible of HMS K13 which sank during trials in Gare Lock Scotland on 29 January 1917. Mr Charles Freestone was Leading Telegraphist on K13 at the ...

Letter: HMAS Choules

Smith, John, Cmdr, RAN (RTD) · Dec 16, 2011 ·

In early 2011, it was announced the RAN would purchase RFA Largs Bay, a six year old Landing Ship Dock (LSD) now surplus to British requirements. The purchase price was ...

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Book review: The Pacific Fleet – The Royal Navy’s Most Powerful Strike Force

Book reviewer · Dec 16, 2011 ·

The British Pacific Fleet – The Royal Navy’s Most Powerful Strike Force by David Hobbs. Published by Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, 2011. Hard cover, 462 pages plus B & W illustrations, ...

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The Impact of Jet Propulsion on RAN Aviation Squadrons

A.N. Other · Dec 16, 2011 ·

By Midshipman S.R. Gidley, RAN MIDN Gidley grew up on Sydney’s North Shore but in 2011 moved to Jindabyne in the Snowy Mountains. After completing secondary education at Sydney’s Shore ...

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The Sea Swapping Captain

Editorial Staff · Dec 16, 2011 ·

The Commanding Officer of HMAS Stuart, Commander Brett Sonter, RAN, kindly agreed to be interviewed by our Editor and in this article he answers a series of questions which creates ...

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Sydney-Emden battle stamps of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands

A.N. Other · Dec 16, 2011 ·

  By Richard Breckon  Following from recent cover pictures of the June edition of the Review featuring Australian warships depicted on postage stamps the well known philatelist Richard Breckon has ...

Chloe and Sadie – or 100% Pitched and Ditched

Haynes, Fred · Dec 16, 2011 ·

This article is by Fred Haynes who for many years worked at Garden Island Dockyard firstly as a Scientific Instrument Maker and later as Technical Officer in charge of the ...

817 Squadron: You will miss us when we are gone

A.N. Other · Dec 16, 2011 ·

This short history has been assembled from Squadron records. 817 Squadron has its origins in the Royal Navy (RN) where it was commissioned as a torpedo/reconnaissance squadron at Royal Naval ...

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The Fairey Gannet A/S1

A.N. Other · Dec 16, 2011 ·

By CMDR (P) R.V. Morritt, RAN Rtd The Fairey Gannet A/S 1 aircraft was introduced into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Fleet Air Arm (FAA) in 1955. When embarked in ...

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Introduction of the A4 Skyhawk into the RAN Fleet Air Arm 1967/1968

A.N. Other · Dec 16, 2011 ·

By John Da Costa Following the reversal, in the early 1960s, of an earlier Australian Government decision to disband the RAN Fleet Air Arm and to pay-off the carrier HMAS ...

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Number 1 RAN Pilots Course in Korea

A.N. Other · Dec 16, 2011 ·

By Fred Lane The story of the RAN’s first pilots course in Korea starts with a workup that began in earnest in late April 1951. The 21st Carrier Air Group ...

A History of the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm, the Present and the Future

A.N. Other · Dec 16, 2011 ·

We are honoured to publish this keynote Address given to the Fleet Air Arm of South Australia Division following an RAN Fleet Air Arm Commemorative Service at the Adelaide Repatriation ...

Australian Naval History on 13 December 2011

On This Day · Dec 13, 2011 ·

HMAS Choules commissioned into the RAN. The ship originally entered service with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary on 28 November 2006 as RFA Largs Bay (L3006) ...

Australian Naval History on 25 November 2011

On This Day · Nov 25, 2011 ·

HMAS Kanimbla II decommissioned. ...

Submarines before Oberon Submarines before Oberon and their Significance for the Royal Australian Navy

A.N. Other · Sep 4, 2011 ·

 By Midshipman John Lee This essay, which won the Naval Historical Society history prize in 2010, has been purposely held back for inclusion in this edition of our magazine which ...

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Nuclear Submarines not an Option for Australia

A.N. Other · Sep 4, 2011 ·

By Hans J. Ohff After a career in engineering and commerce, Hans Ohff took an interest in economic history to earn his PhD from the University of Adelaide. He regards ...

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Tails of Mice and Men

A.N. Other · Sep 4, 2011 ·

When the Prince of Wales, later King George V, inspected the Submarine Flotilla in March 1904 and undertook a dive in an ‘A’ boat he was first presented to the ...

Submarine Duty 1918

A.N. Other · Sep 4, 2011 ·

By the late Captain W.J. Cowling, as told by his daughter Mrs C.M. Wood. At the beginning of WWI the Royal Navy (RN) had 70 submarines in commission, which was ...

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Newcastle Maritime Centre

A.N. Other · Sep 4, 2011 ·

Australia is well blessed by a number of small maritime museums but as these are on our doorsteps they are often overlooked. We have asked the curators of a number ...

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Letter: Fred Dawson

Editorial Staff · Sep 4, 2011 ·

One of our members, Fred Dawson of Nowra, has written pointing out a few errors in articles contained in the March 2011 edition of the Review (Vol 32 No 1). ...

From Submersibles to SWUP: The First Seventy-five years of Submarines in Australian Defence and Naval Policy

Goldrick, James, Commodore, RAN · Sep 4, 2011 ·

The following article comprises the 2011 Creswell Oration address delivered by Rear Admiral James Goldrick, AM, CSC, RAN to the Navy League of Australia at Melbourne in March of this ...

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Book Review: Seamanship and Scouting for Boys

Book reviewer · Sep 3, 2011 ·

We are only reviewing one book, a history of Sea Scouting. This volume is extremely well written by an author who has spent a lifetime involved in Sea Scouting and ...

A Retrospective of the Collins Class Submarines

A.N. Other · Sep 3, 2011 ·

By Commander Andy Millar CSC RAN Rtd Andy Millar is dual qualified as a submariner and anti-submarine specialist who was intimately involved with the submarine project since its inception in ...

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