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Letter: Commander Frederick Campbell Darley RN: More News

Letter Writer · Jun 20, 2021 ·

An article by Greg Swinden appeared in the June 2017 edition of this magazine outlining the story of Commander Frederick Darley RN who played a significant part in the establishment ...

Book Review: Aus-Ships 2021: Fifth Edition

Book reviewer · Jun 20, 2021 ·

Aus-Ships 2021: Fifth Edition by Robert Fildes and Rex Cox. The previous edition was offered as a CD and now this revised and improved edition comes as a USB. This ...

Book Review: Mutineers – A True Story of Heroes and Villains

Kingsley Perry · Jun 20, 2021 ·

Mutineers – A True Story of Heroes and Villains. Paperback of 320 pages by Robert Hadler, published by Wilkinson Publishing Pty Limited, Victoria 3000. Available from booksellers, rrp $28.75. The ...

Book Review: Teddy Sheean VC – A Selfless Act of Valour

Swinden, Greg · Jun 20, 2021 ·

Teddy Sheean VC – A Selfless Act of Valour. Paperback of 379 pages by Tom Lewis. Big Sky Publishing, Newport NSW, 2021. Also available as an eBook. The author played ...

The Remarkable Cavaye family

A.N. Other · Jun 20, 2021 ·

A colleague from the United Kingdom conducting research into wartime submarine losses recently contacted the Society seeking information on the Australia- born captain of HMS Tempest which was lost in ...

Port Clearance Parties – the Australian Connection

A.N. Other · Jun 20, 2021 ·

By Hector Donohue Port Clearance Parties, or P Parties, were established in the Royal Navy (RN) in late 1943 and were trained to clear the ports and harbours of Northern ...

George Hermon Gill: Writer of History

Editorial Staff · Jun 20, 2021 ·

The name George Hermon Gill might mean little to a new generation of men and women serving in the RAN but in your careers you will almost certainly come across ...

HMAS Melbourne Refugee Rescue Mission

A.N. Other · Jun 19, 2021 ·

  By John Ingram ‘Oh, hear us when we cry to thee, For those in peril on the sea’. Some of the immortal words of the Naval Hymn composed by ...

The Distribution, Design, Construction and Sustainability of Indigenous Watercraft in Australia: Part 2

A.N. Other · Jun 19, 2021 ·

By David Payne This is a continuation from Part 1 of this series which was published in the March 2021 edition of this magazine. The dugout canoes from the top ...

The Willis Islands

Walter Burroughs · Jun 19, 2021 ·

By Walter Burroughs This article continues a story from Weather Islands published in the March 2021 edition of this magazine. The first article told us a lot about the weather ...

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