January, 1941 was the month when problems caused by German raiders in the Indian Ocean increased. The famous armed merchant cruisers ATLANTIS and PINGUIN were now joined by the pocket ...
HMAS Shropshire
HMAS Shropshire – WW2
HMAS SHROPSHIRE was a lucky ship! All drafts to the U.K. safely traversed the Atlantic at the height of U-Boat sinkings and not a man was lost through enemy action. ...
Australian Naval History on 14 March 1993
CMDR Warwick Seymour Bracegirdle, DSC and 2 Bars, RAN, died at his home in London. The award of three DSC’s, coupled with two MID, was a rare achievement. His first ...
Leyte Gulf – the RAN in the Biggest Naval Battle of all time
Obituary: Rear-Admiral H.A.S SHOWERS, CBE
Scharnhorst – Life on the Other Side of the Mirror
Book Review: HMAS Shropshire
HMAS Shropshire by Stan Nicholls Published by The Naval Historical Society of Australia Published December 1989. 315 pp. Photos. Profile views. Press cuttings. Maps. Index. Limited edition. Hard cover. To ...
HMAS Shropshire War Record
A very brief resume of HMAS Shropshire’s war record during its 18½ months in the South West Pacific and firing its last salvo on July 9, 1945. Operations and Battles – ...
Book Review: Silencing debate on Shropshire
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 ...