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Jarrett, Hugh

Middle East Patrol (HMS Mermaid)

Jarrett, Hugh · Jun 10, 2004 ·

In 1951 the destroyers and frigates of the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean Fleet were rostered for the Middle East Patrol which was based on a requirement to have a ship within ...

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Chief of Naval Staff Visits HMAS Benalla

Jarrett, Hugh · Mar 30, 2004 ·

DURING WW2 we had commissioned the corvette HMAS Benalla as a survey ship and she was lying alongside Station Pier West, Port Melbourne, about to start acceptance and work-up. A ...

In Some Corner of a Foreign Field

Jarrett, Hugh · Mar 30, 2004 ·

ON 25TH APRIL 1915, Lieutenant Rupert Brooke RNVR of the Royal Navy Division was buried in ‘Some Foreign Field’ on the Greek island of Skyros to the south-west of Gallipoli. ...

Cerberus in Wartime

Jarrett, Hugh · Mar 30, 2004 ·

The transit from peacetime tempo to the demands of wartime training left strong impressions on the many trainees during their introduction to the Navy in WW2. We were all Acting ...

Melbourne Cup

Jarrett, Hugh · Dec 17, 2003 ·

ONE CANNOT HELP remembering that in days long past our Fleet always managed to be in Melbourne for the Cup and our ships and men were definitely a part of ...

Mediterranean Memories

Jarrett, Hugh · Jun 27, 2003 ·

Much the same as between the Wars, post WW2 saw the Royal Navy concentrated in the Mediterranean, based on Malta and Gibraltar. IN 1951 I WAS ON EXCHANGE SERVICE in ...

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The History of Nelson’s Flagship – HMS Victory

Jarrett, Hugh · Sep 9, 2002 ·

 It is nearly two hundred years since the Battle of Trafalgar and on the anniversary of that great battle, 21st October, in clubs and naval messes across the world, the ...

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Letter – The discovery of AE2

Jarrett, Hugh · Mar 19, 2000 ·

Dear Sirs, I read Mark Spencer’s article… “The Discovery of the AE2 – a WW1 Submarine” with great interest and agree that it is a story largely unknown in this ...

Holbrook – Submarine Town, Australia

Jarrett, Hugh · Dec 27, 1996 ·

In December 1914, Lieutenant Douglas Norman Holbrook, RN, captain of a small old submarine, B11, penetrated the narrows in the Dardanelles and sank the Turkish cruiser, MESUDIYEH. This earned him ...

Port Adelaide – Memories 1924

Jarrett, Hugh · Dec 11, 1994 ·

In 1925 our family packed and moved to South Australia where my father took up a new appointment as Sub-District Naval Officer, having transferred to the Naval Auxiliary Service, the ...

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Search for the German Asiatic Squadron – 1914-1916

Jarrett, Hugh · Jul 12, 1992 ·

At the outbreak of war on 4th August, 1914, the German East Asiatic Squadron, commanded by Vice-Admiral Graf von Spee, had its base at the fortified harbour of Tsing-tao on ...

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