RAN operations

A Visit to Piraeus, Greece 1941

Bracegirdle, Warwick, DSC, Commander, RAN (Rtd) · Jun 21, 1990 ·

After the naval battle of Matapan most of the fleet returned to Alexandria to replenish supplies. Two cruisers of the 7th Cruiser Squadron HMS Ajax and HMAS Perth did not ...

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Book Review: Silencing debate on Shropshire

Book reviewer · Mar 28, 1990 ·

Mr Stan Nicholls wants to silence debate on what did and did not happen to HMAS Shropshire during World War II. So he has written a 330-page hard-cover book on ...

Dry Land Sailors – The Navy at Gallipoli

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 1990 ·

At 4.30 on the morning of December 20 1915, Sub Lieutenant Charles Hicks and his fifty man detachment of the Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, stood waiting in the dark ...

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HMAS Sydney-SMS Emden Action at Cocos Islands 1914 – A German Survivor’s Account

Clark, Bryan · Sep 18, 1989 ·

Republished from the “Clarion” newspaper, Cocos Island, (in 1964), and now to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the original HMAS Sydney’s battle with the German light cruiser, Emden, at North ...

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Armstrong, J M – Naval Wartime Hero (Part 1)

Zammitt, Alan · Mar 12, 1989 ·

Since the publication of Professor David Armstrong’s eulogy of his father, there have been a number of inquiries about some of the highlights of Jamie Armstrong’s Naval career particularly the ...

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Home, Home on the Range: Degaussing

Southcombe (Cornwallis), Gwenda · Dec 27, 1988 ·

IT ALL BEGAN, FOR ME, up a long flight of steep steps at No. 10 Clarence Street, Sydney. I was just one of the very many men and women of ...

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The Battle for the Boom

Thomson, Max · Jun 27, 1988 ·

SYDNEY HARBOUR has always presented a racy scene! Yachts thrash about in all manner of class events, Sydney’s ‘Great Ferry Race’ captures the imagination of all who pack vantage points ...

Leyte: HMAS Shropshire and HMAS Arunta in the Battle of Surigao Strait

Date, John C., RANVR (Rtd) · Mar 13, 1988 ·

IN THE GREATEST SEA BATTLE of all time, near the Philippine Island of Leyte in 1944, overmatched ships fought desperately against three Japanese fleets to keep the hard-won beachheads open. ...

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HMAS Waterhen – a history

A.N. Other · Sep 13, 1987 ·

THE LATTER STAGES of the Great War saw the introduction into the Royal Navy of a number of capable and high performance destroyers. To operate with these destroyers the Admiralty ...

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Lost Letter Throws New Light on Sydney-Emden Action

Bywater, G (Naval Archives) · Jun 11, 1987 ·

Locating the Letter: As part of a general clean up and rationalisation of cabinets belonging to the Naval Historian, the Navy Archives staff dug through a number of filing cabinets ...

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RAN operations

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