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Occasional Paper 116: Navy Veterans Salute the ‘Forgotten War’

Editorial Staff · Jun 30, 2021 ·

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Lieutenant Commander WOC Roberts gives an account of HMAS Murchison in the Han River during the Korean War in 1951

David Michael · Jun 27, 2021 ·

The Han River Estuary does not merge into the sea, but loses itself in a spiderweb of narrow channel and mud flats: no place for ships to move or manoeuvre. ...

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 ...

Occasional Paper 48: HMAS Anzac (II) – the last ‘Battle’

A.N. Other · Mar 9, 2019 ·

March 2019 The following paper on the distinguished service of HMAS Anzac (II) was first published in the March 2011 edition of the Naval Historical Review available on the Society ...

Number 1 RAN Pilots Course in Korea

A.N. Other · Dec 16, 2011 ·

By Fred Lane The story of the RAN’s first pilots course in Korea starts with a workup that began in earnest in late April 1951. The 21st Carrier Air Group ...

Korean Waters – Tribal Class Destroyers

Nesdale, Iris · Jun 4, 2007 ·

This is a slightly abbreviated version of Chapter 13 from the book Action Stations – Tribal Destroyers of the Royal Australian Navy by the late Iris Nesdale, published by the ...

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Book Review: HMAS Murchison

Fazio, Lieut. V. RANEM · Sep 10, 2002 ·

Title: HMAS Murchison – Baron of the Han Author: Robert E Capes Publisher: Naval Historical Society of Australia (Inc) [Ed: The Society recently published this book] This book was written ...

Obituary: Harry Train 1918-1999

Newspaper, Daily Telegraph · Dec 23, 1999 ·

Born: Millthorpe, October 26, 1918 Died: Balmain, May 23, 1999 Harry Train gave 30 years of his life to serving his country with the RAN. After enlisting in 1936 as ...

The capturing of USS Pueblo

Date, John C., RANVR (Rtd) · Mar 30, 1990 ·

In recent issues (1988-89) of the United States Naval Institute journal ‘Naval History’ a fairly detailed coverage has been given to the circumstances surrounding the boarding and subsequent capturing of ...

I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 6-Conclusion )

Zammitt, Alan · Oct 25, 1982 ·

ON 21ST OCTOBER, six Sea Furies attacked the suspected invasion junks, sinking 7 and damaging 15. Two Sea Furies were detailed to assist HMAS Murchison negotiate shallow water hazards which ...

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