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Naval Historical Review

A Tribute to Norman Rivett

Editorial Staff · Jun 16, 2021 ·

  Norman (Norm) Rivett, an esteemed founding father of the Naval Historical Society, passed over the bar on 8 March 2021 just shy of his 96th birthday. He will be ...

Memories of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Editorial Staff · Jun 16, 2021 ·

News of the death of Prince Philip was received with great sadness when he recently crossed the bar just short of his century. Not only was he a magnificent consort ...

The Navy’s Secret War in the Pacific

Proud, J.C.R, Commander · Mar 31, 2021 ·

This article was the first to appear in the very first issue of the Australian Naval Historical Review in 1971. It retains its historical interest, and is very much in ...

The 50th Anniversary of the Naval Historical Society of Australia: The Story So Far

Editorial Staff · Mar 31, 2021 ·

This year, 2020, marks the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Naval Historical Society of Australia. Following the Melbourne/Voyager/Frank E. Evans collisions and sentiment turning against an unpopular Vietnamese ...

Book Review: Schoolies: Selected Service Stories of the Royal Navy Instructor Officers’ Association

Book reviewer · Dec 20, 2020 ·

Schoolies: Selected Service Stories of the Royal Navy Instructor Officers’ Association. By John Nixon and Michael S. Rose. Hardcover with illustrations, 228 pages. £20, available through Pinewood Hill Publishing. Bravo ...

Book Review: Atomic Salvation

Book reviewer · Dec 20, 2020 ·

Atomic Salvation by Tom Lewis. Big Sky Publishing, Sydney, 2020. Soft cover, 352 pages with b&w photographs. Booksellers at $29.99. In this book the author constructs an argument supporting the ...

Book Review: Believe it or Not – The Bill Ripley Story

Book reviewer · Dec 20, 2020 ·

Believe it or Not: The Bill Ripley Story. By Stuart Ripley. In two volumes of 800 pages, these hard cover books are produced to a high standard. Available from ripleysturat@gamil.com, ...

Letter: Formation of the Royal Australian Navy

Letter Writer · Dec 20, 2020 ·

Re: Naval Historical Review Vol. 41 No 73 Sept. 2020, An Essay on the Forming of the Royal Australian Navy by Midshipman Lloyd Skinner Dear Editor I read Lloyd’s essay ...

Trouble with the Neighbours

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

By Colin Randall Garden Island has always had trouble with the neighbours. The earliest recorded was in 1788 and the latest in January 2020. Over the intervening 232 years neighbours ...

The Percy Islands and some Visitors

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

Continuing the series on islands around our coastline we venture a little further south down the Queensland coast, dropping the pick at that wondrous yachtie escape, Middle Percy Island. The ...

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