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HMAS Quickmatch to the Rescue

A.N. Other · Jun 29, 2021 ·

By Max Hayles and R.C.H. Mason The first part of this story by Max Hayles appeared in the June 2007 edition of the Naval Historical Review with the sequel by ...

The Grounding of HMAS Adelaide (II) FFG01

A.N. Other · Jun 29, 2021 ·

By Phillip Hart with contribution from Greg Mapson This article is a personal recollection of the grounding of HMAS Adelaide that occurred nearly forty years ago. SBLT Phillip Hart was ...

Occasional Paper 105: Naval History – Does it Matter?

A.N. Other · Mar 31, 2021 ·

What is the point of naval history? Is it to provide a rich framework through which contemporary Naval debates can be viewed or is there something more there? Must it always say something about the World we live in today while also addressing the one we hope to inhabit in the future? ...

Occasional Paper 107: Dutch Submarine K IX, Netherlands East Indies Naval Forces, Under US Navy Operational Control, then RAN Control as HMAS K9 In SWPA During WWII

A.N. Other · Mar 31, 2021 ·

By Peter Dunn OAM The Dutch submarine K IX is known to many who are familiar with the Japanese midget submarine attack in Sydney Harbour on the night of 31 ...

Trouble with the Neighbours

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

By Colin Randall Garden Island has always had trouble with the neighbours. The earliest recorded was in 1788 and the latest in January 2020. Over the intervening 232 years neighbours ...

The Percy Islands and some Visitors

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

Continuing the series on islands around our coastline we venture a little further south down the Queensland coast, dropping the pick at that wondrous yachtie escape, Middle Percy Island. The ...

Singapore Dockyard: The ‘Truncated Scheme’ and construction  of the ‘missing’ wharf walls 1938–1941

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

By Bernard Mennell  This article was published in the May 2019 (Vol 24/No 1) issue of Dockyards, the newsletter of the Naval Dockyards Society (UK) and is re-published with kind ...

Captain Valentina Orlikova – Soviet Maritime Hero

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

By Alexandra Murtazaeva Readers may remember Alexandra who while completing her studies in Australia helped out as a volunteer at the Boatshed. Now back at home in Moscow, she tells ...

Commander Guy Alexander Beange DSC RAN

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

By Hector Donohue  Commander Guy Alexander Beange DSC RAN served with the Royal New Zealand Navy Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War and trained as a Fleet Air Arm ...

Exmouth Gulf – Submariners’ Haven

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

By Colin Randall Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia In 1618, the Dutch East India Company ship Mauritius, under command of Willem Janszoon, landed near North West Cape and named Willem’s River, ...

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