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HMAS Rushcutter (Shores establishment)
A Naval Career in Clearance Diving – Jake Linton
HMA Anti-Submarine School – The Rushcutter Story
Rushcutter Graduates in the Battle of the Atlantic
Anti-Submarine Defences of Sydney Harbour 1942
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
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
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!
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
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
The RAN School of Underwater Medicine was established at HMAS RUSHCUTTER, Sydney. It later moved to HMAS PENGUIN. ...