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Australian Naval History on 17 June 1991

Australian Naval History on 17 June 1991

On This Day · Jun 17, 1991 ·

RAN ships PALUMA and MERMAID, (survey vessels), made a goodwill visit to the Aboriginal community at Milikipati, on Melville Island. The ships were surveying in the area. ...

Book Review: The Third Brother

Book reviewer · Jun 11, 1991 ·

Chris Coulthard-Clark, 533 pages, illustrated, Allen and Unwin, Australia. In the spate of 50th Anniversary war books it comes as rather a surprise to have a book celebrating the 70th ...

RAN – First Naval Casualty – Loss Of AE1

Fuqua Chris S · Jun 11, 1991 ·

July, 1914: The Royal Australian Navy is still in the embryonic stages, its forces limited and comparatively minuscule to the navies of the world powers. The R.A.N.’s current strength lies ...

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Naval Operations against Turkey leading to ANZAC

Smythe, D.H.D., AO, Commodore, RAN · Jun 11, 1991 ·

Originally, the Gallipoli campaign was planned to be a purely naval show. But let me go back in history a little further even than that. The Gallipoli campaign was caused, ...

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USS Mount Hood – Explosion At Manus Island 1944

Thomson, Max · Jun 11, 1991 ·

What is it about the name Hood? Britain’s renowned 42,000-ton battlecruiser H.M.S. Hood met a fiery wartime fate in mortal combat with the German battleship BISMARCK and cruiser PRINZ EUGEN ...

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HMS Barham – Survivors Account Of Sinking

McDonald, I.H., Captain, RAN (Ret) · Jun 11, 1991 ·

It is just over 49 years since H.M.S. BARHAM was torpedoed by U.331 and lost off the Western Desert of Egypt – off Sollum and Sidi Barrani. She was the ...

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Royal New Zealand Navy’s Fairmile Patrol Craft (Part 1)

Cassells, Ken · Jun 11, 1991 ·

At the beginning of World War II the principal threat to shipping in New Zealand waters was perceived as the German raider, Lessons learned during the Great War pointed to ...

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Obituary: Commodore ARL Lindsey, AM VRD RD RANR (RET)

A.N. Other · Jun 11, 1991 ·

Commodore Lindsey was the first Australian Reserve Officer to reach Flag Rank. He was only 51 when he died but had had a rewarding life both in the R.A.N. Reserve ...

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Obituary: Captain H M Newcomb

A.N. Other · Jun 11, 1991 ·

Captain Harvey Mansfield Newcomb R.N. (Ret) and also R.A.N. (Ret) was born in Kidderminster in England on 18th September, 1899. He was educated at Bedford School and entered the Royal ...

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Letters: A South Atlantic Incident

Letter Writer · Jun 11, 1991 ·

I wish to make the following correction to my article ”A SOUTH ATLANTIC INCIDENT” published in the September, 1990 edition of the Naval Historical Review. An ex Communicator might be forgiven ...

Profile of Vice Admiral I.D.G. MacDougall, A.O.

A.N. Other · Jun 11, 1991 ·

Vice Admiral MacDougall accepted our invitation to be patron of the Society when he succeeded Admiral Hudson as Chief of Naval Staff on 8th March, 1991. His curriculum vitae follows: ...

Australian Naval History on 9 June 1991

On This Day · Jun 9, 1991 ·

HMAS Westralia (II) returned to Australia on completion of her participation in Operation DAMASK II. ...

Australian Naval History on 4 June 1991

On This Day · Jun 4, 1991 ·

HMAS DARWIN, (guided missile frigate), arrived in the Arabian Gulf to relieve HMAS BRISBANE, (guided missile destroyer). BRISBANE was the only RAN destroyer to see service in the Arabian Gulf. ...

Australian Naval History on 2 June 1991

On This Day · Jun 2, 1991 ·

During Operation Gulf Storm, HMAS BENDIGO, (patrol boat), intercepted and boarded the first of 42 foreign fishing vessels intruding in Australian waters, off the east coast of Tasmania. This training ...

Australian Naval History on 1 June 1991

On This Day · Jun 1, 1991 ·

HMAS JERVIS BAY, (training ship), arrived at Honiara, (Solomon Islands), for a goodwill visit to the area. ...

Australian Naval History on 20 May 1991

On This Day · May 20, 1991 ·

HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), arrived at the port of Pireaus, Greece, to take part in the 50th Anniversary commemorations of the Greece and Crete Campaigns. During her time in ...

Australian Naval History on 14 May 1991

On This Day · May 14, 1991 ·

Sea King helicopters from 817 Squadron, (RAN), rescued 38 people cut off by flood waters on the NSW south coast. The Squadron was later awarded a NSW Police Commendation for ...

Australian Naval History on 22 April 1991

On This Day · Apr 22, 1991 ·

HMAS BRISANE, (guided missile destroyer), and HMAS SYDNEY, (guided missile frigate), returned to their home port of Sydney, after serving in the Persian Gulf during Operation Damask, (1st Gulf War). ...

Australian Naval History on 4 April 1991

On This Day · Apr 4, 1991 ·

The battleship USS MISSOURI visited Fremantle, WA on her return to her base of San Diego after Gulf War service. ...

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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Scharnhorst – Life on the Other Side of the Mirror

Yeomans, Jim · Mar 11, 1991 ·

He must have been a lot like me; same age, similar family conditions, same era and enjoying his life. My introduction to him quite recently was via his younger sister ...

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Letters: Attack on HMAS Australia

Letter Writer · Mar 11, 1991 ·

Having read the various accounts of the dawn attack on HMAS Australia on 21st October 1944, as contained in the Society’s publications, may I submit the following observation on the ...

Unique Shield for Hobart Museum

Thomson, Max · Mar 11, 1991 ·

Navy history keeps bobbing up in the most unexpected places. Browsing through an antique shop ‘up north’ a Navy enthusiast spotted the wartime shield of the RAN 817 Squadron Fleet ...

Book Review: Action Stations Coral Sea

Book reviewer · Mar 11, 1991 ·

Chris Coulthard-Clark, Allen & Unwin Australia Pty Ltd 157 pages, illustrated. This thoroughly researched account of the first important, sea battle in the South Pacific in World War 2 is ...

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 ...

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