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Index of Articles World Ship Society, Australia & NZ 1954 – 1967 Nautical Association of Australia New Series, 1968 – 2014 Nautical Association of Australia Inc. www.nautical.asn.au Edition 2, 28 October 2015 NOTES This index is an update to that issued in 2004 indexing Articles in the first 50 years of THE LOG from 1954 to 2003. It brings the index up to 2014 and includes additional cross referencing and detail on articles to enable more information to be located. PART 1 MERCHANT SHIPS PART 2 NAVAL VESSELS As in the previous issue this Index shows LOG dates only, page numbers are not indexed and readers will need to look through individual LOGS to find the articles. From 1954 to 2008 the Index reference is shown as month and year of publication. For example, reference 3:5/63,3/68 indicates items published in the March & May 1963 and March 1968 issues of THE LOG. Also 7-8/58 indicates an item in the July-August 1958 LOG. In 2009 the month of publication was replaced with the quarter in which THE LOG was issued (that is, numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 each year) so that indexing from 2009 refers to the quarter and year. Thus 3/14 indicates items in the third issue of THE LOG for 2014. (Note :This is different to the system adopted for the Indexes of Fleets and Classes, Illustrations and Authors recently published for the first time, which show the cumulative LOG Issue Number (W1- W75 old series and 1-198 New Series) and page number for each item.) Many articles are indexed by ship name or other key word and many articles are indexed several ways to assist location. Examples follow: Before her time – The Loss of Aeon, is indexed under Aeon Sydney and the Aberdeen Line, is indexed under Aberdeen Line The Forgotten Few, is indexed under Photographers, The Forgotten Few John McIlwraith, is indexed under John and also under McIlwraith Alfred Holt’s Asphalion: A World War II Experience, is also indexed under Asphalion Tale of Three Birds has had the ship’s names Albatross, Pelican and Swallow added in brackets, and is also indexed under each ship name Missing Ships, Ships of the Past and Interesting Ships are indexed as a series together and also by ship names individually. Information in brackets is additional to the Title of an article, and is provided to elaborate on the subject of the article. This frequently includes names of ships, which are then each separately indexed. Ship names and classes of ships are in italics. Class names are also in inverted commas. Some articles indexed are short, for instance an item of correspondence referring to an earlier article. Company names are frequently most easily found in the Fleets & Classes Index, although many items are listed in both indexes. This Index is available to view as a searchable pdf document on the NAA website <nautical.asn.au> and can be downloaded and saved if required. Hard copies are available from the NAA from time to time. The web version will be updated periodically to incorporate later issues of THE LOG and to make improvements or to correct any errors. Suggestions for improvements and advice of any errors or omissions are welcome and should be emailed to <[email protected]> First 2004 edition prepared by Buster Browne, this second edition, based on the first, prepared by Tony Cavanagh, for the Nautical Association of Australia Inc. PART 1 - MERCHANT SHIPS 50 Years of Port Adelaide – a Personal Recollection ............................................................. 1/11 50th Anniversary for The Log .................................................................................................. 5/04 A.B. Rea – Builder by Lake and Shore .................................................................................. 8/99 Aberdeen Line, The ...................................................................................................... 9/55,3/56 Aberdeen Line, Sydney and the ........................................................................ 8:11/97, 2:5:8/98 Aberdeen Shipbuilders Alexander Hall & Company Ltd and Hall Russell & Company Ltd ...... 3/14 Aberfoyle – a Tragic Voyage ............................................................................................ 2/95 Abersea and her Successor ................................................................................................... 9/60 Abraham Rydberg ............................................................................................................... 7-8/58 Absconded (Kota Singapura ex Tjiluwah, Santelena ex Allara) .............................................. 3/73 Adelaide, Famous Paddle Tugboat ....................................................................................... 9/59 Adelaide Company’s Bullarra of 1890 .................................................................................... 5/07 Adelaide Ship Construction .................................................................................................. 11/85 Adelaide Steamship Company Ltd., The ................................................................................ 8/75 Adelong ......................................................................................................................... 7/67,9/66 Adelong, Ships of the Past ..................................................................................................... 5/96 Aden as a Mail Steamer Junction ........................................................................................... 2/96 Adstream Marine Ltd. ............................................................................................................. 8/97 Aeon, Before her Time – The Loss of ..................................................................................... 2/01 Aeronautical Engineer, The Voyage of an .............................................................................. 2/97 Age, The Three Ages of Howard Smith .................................................................................. 7/69 Airlie & Guthrie, The Steamers ............................................................................................... 9/72 Ajax, The Pilot Steamer ......................................................................................................... 3/63 Akuna II, Port Phillip Sea Pilots’ HMAS Gladstone ................................................................ 4/12 Al Malik Saud Al-Awal, Two Ships into One ........................................................................... 1/68 Albatross, Tale of Three Birds .............................................................................................. 11/03 Albion ................................................................................................................................... 11/99 Alcoa and Point Henry Story, The .......................................................................................... 3/14 Aldinga ................................................................................................................................... 2/00 Alert, the Foundering of the .................................................................................................... 3/54 Alexander, John William ......................................................................................................... 2/95 Alexander Hall & Co. Ltd, Interesting Ships of the Australian Coast 51: Shipbuilders ............. 3/14 Alfred Holt’s Asphalion: a World War II Experience ................................................................ 8/02 Alice in Wonderland ............................................................................................................... 8/76 Allara, Absconded, (Santelena) .............................................................................................. 3/73 Allen Taylor & Company Ltd .................................................................................................. 5/71 American ‘Mariner’ Class Cargo Ships, The ........................................................................... 5/63 American Mist, Memories of the Far East on .......................................................................... 1/10 American Pioneers (American Pioneer Line and history) .................................................... 2:5/00 American Type Container Ships ............................................................................................. 9/58 Ampac: The American Pacific Container Line Inc................................................................... 5/85 Ampol the Shipowner ............................................................................................................. 2/73 An Eastern Mystery (Fortunatus) ........................................................................................... 5/04 An International Spirit ............................................................................................................. 5/94 Andrew Weir Motorships ...................................................................................................... 11/59 Andrew Crawford & Company Ltd. of Glasgow ...................................................................... 5/64 ANL Annual Report – 1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982 ................. 2/78,2/79,2/80,2/81,2/82,2/83 ANL Annual Report – 1983,1985,1985-86,1988,1989,1990 .......... 2/84,2/86,11/86,2/89,2/90,2/91 ANL Annual Report – 1991,1992,1992-93,1994,1995,1996 ............ 2/92,2/93,2/94,5/95,5/96,2/97 ANL Bulk Carriers .................................................................................................................
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