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HMAS Rushcutter (Shores establishment)

Occasional Paper 152: HMAS Rushcutter

Lorraine Fildes · Dec 1, 2022 ·

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A Naval Career in Clearance Diving – Jake Linton

Linton, E.W. (Jake), BEM, MCD, Commander, RAN (Rtd) · Mar 4, 2007 ·

It was late 1954, I was 19 years old, married, an Able Seaman employed as a Main Gate Sentry at Naval Headquarters at Potts Point, not making enough money to ...

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HMA Anti-Submarine School – The Rushcutter Story

Cleary, Brian, Commodore, RAN (Rtd) · Jun 3, 2006 ·

During World War I, the only underwater detection device in use was the hydrophone – a passive listening set. In June 1917, the British Admiralty and the Royal Navy embarked ...

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Rushcutter Graduates in the Battle of the Atlantic

Worledge, Ray · Jun 3, 2006 ·

Editor’s Note:  The full text of Ray’s article described the evolution of HMAS Rushcutter as the Australian A/S School in 1938/39, and the training of both officers and sailors in A/S Warfare equipment ...

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Anti-Submarine Defences of Sydney Harbour 1942

Kennedy, David · Mar 30, 2005 ·

The British Officer-in-Charge of Australia’s anti-submarine training establishment warned Navy chiefs, four months before Japanese midget submarines attacked Sydney Harbour in May 1942, that the defences against such a raid ...

Obituary: Lieutenant Commander Austin Quince RNVR

A.N. Other · Jun 20, 2000 ·

Lt. Commander Austin Henry Quince RNVR – 17.2.1894 – 23.3.1984 Fellow members of the wartime staff at H.M.A.S. “RUSHCUTTER” and the many officers and ratings who received their training at that ...

Captain Harvey Newcomb RN – Newcomb Building, HMAS Watson

Worledge, Ray · Dec 7, 1998 ·

On October 28, 1997 the Royal Australian Navy’s Surface Warfare School Building was formally renamed the “Newcomb Building”, commemorating the service of Captain Harvey Mansfield Newcomb. At the end of ...

Book Review: Contact!

Duchesne, Tim · Mar 5, 1996 ·

Title: “CONTACT! HMAS RUSHCUTTER and Australia’s Submarine Hunters 1939 -1946.” The disproportionate contribution of Australia to Allied victory in World War II, bearing in mind her limited resources, is common knowledge. ...

Australian Naval History on 2 November 1985

On This Day · Nov 2, 1985 ·

HMAS CANBERRA, (guided missile frigate), signalled the Russian ship FRUNZE, (guided missile frigate), which she had shadowed CANBERRA for three days in the South China Sea; ‘Happy 68th Birthday, (of ...

Australian Naval History on 21 January 1963

On This Day · Jan 21, 1963 ·

The RAN School of Underwater Medicine was established at HMAS RUSHCUTTER, Sydney. It later moved to HMAS PENGUIN. ...

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