At one period in my existence afloat in one of pusser’s corvettes it appeared that the way home was a bit of a lottery with Tojo in charge of the ...
The Gin Pennant – The signal for all celebrations
The origins of the Gin Pennant are uncertain, but it seems to have been used since the 1940s and probably earlier. The distillery manager of Plymouth Gin was quoted ...
Letters – Loss of sea language
Sir, Reading Roger Puttman’s letter (NHR 20-2) and his shared complaint concerning the loss of sea language put me in mind of an incident aboard Quiberon during Arch Harrington’s command ...
Royal Navy Field Gun Competitions
Dear Sir, The attached article from the British International Express about the future of Field Gun competitions in the RN should interest many of our members who have taken part ...
HMAS Melbourne Service Band
Dear Sir, I read with interest in the last edition of your magazine the articles on the history of RAN bands. I knew quite a few of the bandmasters from ...
Raine Island Beacon
Drake and his game of bowls and Nelson recalling a boat for a sailor’s letter are loved legends from long past wars. But legends also flow from the Golden Age ...
Operation Downfall
Regarding “The Century’s Greatest Untold Story” in Vol. 20, No. 4, although OPERATION DOWNFALL may have been top secret, it was generally known, even in the BPF, that an invasion ...
Operation Downfall – The invasion of Japan – a sequel
Almost as sensational as “OPERATION DOWNFALL” – the top-secret plan for the invasion of Japan as detailed in the last issue of Naval Historical Review (Vol. 20, No. 4) – ...
Obituary: Captain Barbara MacLeod AM
“To achieve the marvellous,” wrote Tom Robbins, “it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought”. When a 24 year-old school teacher from Capel in Western Australia went by train ...
Obituary: Captain Gerald Haynes
Captain Gerald Haynes’s wartime career combined skill and daring at sea and in the air. He was officer of the watch in HMS Victorious in the chase that destroyed the German ...