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Tulagi: an Historic Outpost of Empire A little island with a big history

Walter Burroughs · Aug 27, 2022 ·

Tulagi is one of more than 900 islands and atolls in the nation of the Solomon Islands, a beautiful archipelago stretching over 1,400 kilometres in the Coral Sea. It lies ...

‘Bimbashi’ Mcpherson: A Life in Egypt

Walter Burroughs · Mar 1, 2022 ·

By Walter Burroughs A casual browse through the bookshelves of opportunity shops can produce some surprises. Disorganised, with no rhyme or reason to subject matter, it is as well to ...

Roylen Cruises and their fleet of Fairmiles

Walter Burroughs · Dec 29, 2021 ·

By Walter Burroughs  A visit to an Opportunity Shop browsing through other people’s junk is often time wasting. And so it was while wasting time that an unwanted, ubiquitous, one-dollar ...

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 ...

Palm Islands – a Naval Connection

Walter Burroughs · Jun 24, 2020 ·

By Walter Burroughs The Palm Islands and Challenger Bay affords a large sheltered deep-water anchorage, the last such facility on Australia’s east coast before reaching the northern extremity of the ...

The Admiral, the Ironmaster, the Timber Merchant and the Property Developer

Walter Burroughs · Sep 29, 2019 ·

This is a story of three men drawn together by the magnetism of a beautiful young artists’ model. Emma Hart, a country girl very much in the image of a ...

The Naval Evacuation of Singapore – February 1942

Walter Burroughs · Jun 6, 2019 ·

Singapore – a bastion of the British Empire, an impregnable fortress, fortified to withstand attack and prevent siege. With that in mind, thoughts of evacuation were therefore unnecessary. What the ...

Matthew Flinders: A personal assessment

Walter Burroughs · Jun 6, 2019 ·

Peter Ashley (2005) perhaps encapsulates an apt description of Flinders as a person: Driven, ambitious, sometimes arrogant and occasionally reckless, few navigators had a greater share of misfortune than Captain ...

The German Raider HSK Stier and the American Freighter SS Stephen Hopkins

Walter Burroughs · Mar 26, 2019 ·

Many volumes have been committed to the deadly encounter between the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German raider HSK Kormoran. Depending on which side of the fence you sit, this ...

Scapa Flow Revisited

Walter Burroughs · Dec 13, 2018 ·

By Walter Burroughs The name Scapa Flow was synonymous with naval operations in both world wars as a safe anchorage for vast fleets seeking to control access to the seaborne ...

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