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Occasional Paper 107: Dutch Submarine K IX, Netherlands East Indies Naval Forces, Under US Navy Operational Control, then RAN Control as HMAS K9 In SWPA During WWII

A.N. Other · Mar 31, 2021 ·

By Peter Dunn OAM The Dutch submarine K IX is known to many who are familiar with the Japanese midget submarine attack in Sydney Harbour on the night of 31 ...

Israeli Naval Submarine Dakar

Editorial Staff · Mar 27, 2020 ·

Earlier this year (2019) while filling in time during heavy morning traffic in Haifa and passing the Naval Museum a tour guide related a story about the conning tower from ...

Occasional Paper 46: Lieutenant Kenneth Robert Hudspeth DSC, RANVR

A.N. Other · Feb 12, 2019 ·

Lieutenant Kenneth Robert Hudspeth, Distinguished Service Cross and 2 Bars, RANVR, WWII Lieutenant Kenneth Robert Hudspeth, RANVR was one of many Royal Australian Naval personnel whose service in Royal Navy ...

A Hundred-Year-Old Mystery Solved: What Really Happened to AE1

A.N. Other · Dec 9, 2018 ·

This important commentary by Rear Admiral Peter Briggs AO CSC RAN (Rtd) provides a summary of research that led to the successful discovery of the remains of AE1by MV Fugro ...

Occasional Paper 29: Captain Frederick Melbourne Piggott’s Submarine Service

Piggott, Lieut. Cdr. F.M., RD, MNI, RNR. Rtd., · Oct 29, 2018 ·

June 2018 Captain Frederick Melbourne Piggott RD RNR was born in the UK in April 1915 and moved to Australia in 1943 where he trained young men to handle a ...

Occasional Paper 26: Salvage of the German Seehunde Midget Submarine

A.N. Other · Oct 29, 2018 ·

May 2018 Roger Buxton, an active member of the Society’s Victorian Chapter obtained the original, report of the 1945 recovery of a German Seehunde class midget submarine by Lieutenant V ...

Occasional Paper 25: Recovery of German Midget Submarine and Torpedo, Dover, January 1945

A.N. Other · Oct 29, 2018 ·

April 2018 Report by LEUT J.V.Steele RNVR, DTM(I) Roger Buxton, an active member of the Society’s Victorian Chapter has obtained two original, typed reports of the 1945 recovery of German ...

Book review: The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service since 1945

Book reviewer · Dec 28, 2016 ·

By Peter Hennessy and James Jinks, Publishers Allen Lane, 2015, Hardcover & Paperback, 864 pages. RRP from $30. To many people the submarine is a mystery – what do they ...

Book Review: The Sea Devils

A.N. Other · Sep 20, 2015 ·

The Sea Devils by Mark Felton. Published by Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2015. Softback, 320 pages with photographs, rrp $27.99. A fascinating book on the exploits of the XE Midget ...

Book Review: The Collins Class Submarine Story

Book reviewer · Dec 5, 2008 ·

The Collins Class Submarine Story. By Peter Yule and Derek Woolner. Cambridge University Press (2008). ISBN – 13 978-0-521-86894-5 Reviewed by Tim Duchesne This enthralling and still controversial story is ...

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