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Book Review: A Bloody Job Well Done

Book Review: A Bloody Job Well Done

Book reviewer · Mar 1, 2009 ·

A Bloody Job Well Done The History of the Royal Australian Navy Helicopter Flight Vietnam 1967-1971. Available from HMAS Cerberus 03 59315750. rrp $29.95 Reviewed by Steve Eather One of ...

Letters: VC for Sheehan is a Pandora’s Box

Letter Writer · Dec 7, 2008 ·

Noting the statement regarding the Sheehan’s family fight for VC, I thought that the enclosures may be of interest to your members. While there is no denying the bravery of ...

Loss of HMAS Yarra – 4 March, 1942

Periodical, Archives · Dec 5, 2008 ·

HMAS Yarra, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Robert ‘Oscar’ Rankin, was sunk while defending a convoy against a vastly superior Imperial Japanese Navy squadron commanded by Vice Admiral Nobutake ...

Letters: Later River Class Frigates

Letter Writer · Dec 5, 2008 ·

In your June Edition, John Smith wrote an article about the later River Class Frigates in the RAN and wondered whether the changes made from the first four led them ...

Book Review: Beneath the Dardanelles

Book reviewer · Dec 5, 2008 ·

Beneath the Dardanelles By Vehici and Hatice Basarin Published by Allen and Unwin in paperback, rrp $24.95. Reviewed by Barry Nobes This unusual book purports to present the sinking of ...

Book Review: The Collins Class Submarine Story

Book reviewer · Dec 5, 2008 ·

The Collins Class Submarine Story. By Peter Yule and Derek Woolner. Cambridge University Press (2008). ISBN – 13 978-0-521-86894-5 Reviewed by Tim Duchesne This enthralling and still controversial story is ...

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Book Review: Fairey Gannet in Service with the RAN Fleet Air Arm

Book reviewer · Dec 5, 2008 ·

Submarine Hunter – Fairey Gannet in Service with the RAN Fleet Air Arm. By Zbigniew (‘Ben’) Patynowski. Mushroom Model Publications, Redbourn (UK), 2008. 248pp. Profusely illustrated (b&w and colour) ISBN: ...

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Cannon Balls – Dispelling a Myth

A.N. Other · Dec 5, 2008 ·

In days of old, when muzzle-loading cannons constituted the main armament in ships of war, it was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannons. The ...

RANVR – The Forgotten Few

Wright, Ken · Dec 5, 2008 ·

When Hitler declared war on Great Britain in 1939, here in Australia, the Prime Minister Robert Menzies addressed the nation on 3 September: ‘Fellow Australians, it is my melancholy duty ...

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Leadership: Sir Ernest Shackleton – 1874-1922

Taylor, Megan, Midshipman, RAN · Dec 5, 2008 ·

‘Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.’ Ernest Shackleton, 1916 ‘It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It ...

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AE2 – Unsung Hero of Gallipoli

Spencer, Mark · Dec 5, 2008 ·

On May 24, 1914, Australia acquired its first submarines from England as part of a new post‑federation initiative to achieve more autonomy in the protection of our shores. These were ...

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Book Review: Mururoa Protest

Book reviewer · Sep 5, 2008 ·

Mururoa Protest The story of the voyages by HMNZ Ships Otago and Canterbury to protest against the French atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in 1973. By Gerry Wright. ISBN ...

A Letter from HMAS Sydney

Barrey, R.B., Flying Officer · Sep 5, 2008 ·

Editor’s note: This letter was written by Flying Officer R.B. Barrey who was the pilot of the Walrus Amphibian aircraft in HMAS Sydney in 1941. He did not survive the ...

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Operation ASTUTE: The RAN In East Timor

Periodical, Semaphore · Sep 5, 2008 ·

Operation ASTUTE, the ADF’s deployment of ‘troops to bring security, peace and confidence to the people of Timor-Leste,’ has been accompanied by the expected flood of media analysis. With some ...

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HMAS Australia – A ship for a nation

Stevens, David · Sep 5, 2008 ·

‘There would be an element of tragedy in such an end to any ship; but when the ship represents as much, and suggests as much, as the Australia does, the ...

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Leadership: Captain Alfred T. Mahan USN

Waring, P.S., Midshipman, RAN · Sep 5, 2008 ·

Academic leadership, writings on the history of seapower and his influence on the international struggle for command of the sea pre-WWI (submitted as an entry in the RANC Graduation Naval ...

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Halvorsen’s – boat building during WW2

Svensen, Randi · Sep 5, 2008 ·

This article is an edited extract from Wooden Boats, Iron Men – The Halvorsen Story published by Halstead Press and with the kind permission of the author, Randi Svensen of ...

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Lifeboat No. 7 – 23 days at sea

McIntosh, Ian, Sub-Lieutenant, RN · Sep 5, 2008 ·

Note: Sub Lieutenant McIntosh RN was later to become Vice Admiral Sir Ian McIntosh, RN, KBE CB DSO DSC I was brought up on the family property Camperdown in Victoria’s ...

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Australian Naval History on 26 June 2008

On This Day · Jun 23, 2008 ·

805 Squadron decommissioned at NAS Nowra after the Super Sea Sprite program was cancelled in March 2008 ...

Letters: Obituary of Rear Admiral Dovers

Letter Writer · Jun 12, 2008 ·

Dear Sir, I note Tony Howland’s obituary [your Editor assures you he is in fact alive and well!] published in the December 07 edition. I have also read other obituaries ...

Book Review: Flinders Year 1947

Book reviewer · Jun 5, 2008 ·

Flinders Year 1947 Presents the stories of twenty four young men who joined the Royal Australian Navy at age thirteen by entering the Naval College at Flinders Naval Depot, HMAS ...

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The History of the Radford-Collins Agreement

Brown, Andrew, Commander, RNZN · Jun 5, 2008 ·

Many students of world history would be aware of the security treaty between Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America dated 1 September 1951, commonly referred to as ...

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Whales and Active Sonar: Challenges and Opportunities

Periodical, Semaphore · Jun 5, 2008 ·

This article was first published in the March, 2007 edition of Semaphore, the magazine published by the Seapower Centre of Australia and is reprinted here with their kind permission. The ...

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The Later River Class Frigates in the RAN

Smith, John, Cmdr, RAN (RTD) · Jun 5, 2008 ·

The December 2007 edition of the Naval Historical Review contained a brief history of the RAN River Class Frigates. It also referred to the major differences between the six ships ...

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Japanese Surrender in Toyko-from Warramunga’s Surgeon

Rischbieth, H.G., Surgeon-Lieutenant, RAN · Jun 5, 2008 ·

Henry George Rischbieth, second son of Harold and Eileen Rischbieth (nee de la Poer Beresford) served in the Royal Australian Navy as a Surgeon Lieutenant during World War II. He ...

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