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CALL the HANDS NHSA DIGITAL NEWSLETTER Issue No.13 October 2017
CALL THE HANDS NHSA DIGITAL NEWSLETTER Issue No.13 October 2017 From the President The Naval Historical Society of Australia (NHSA) has grown over more than four decades from a small Garden Island, Sydney centric society in 1970 to an Australia wide organization with Chapters in Victoria, WA and the ACT and an international presence through the website and social media. Having recently established a FACEBOOK presence with a growing number of followers. Society volunteers have been busy in recent months enhancing the Society’s website. The new website will be launched in December 2017 at our AGM. At the same time, we plan to convert Call the Hands into digital newsletter format in lieu of this PDF format. This will provide advantage for readers and the Society. The most significant benefit of NHSA membership of the Society is receipt of our quarterly magazine, the Naval Historical Review which is add free, up to fifty pages in length and includes 8 to 10 previously unpublished stories on a variety of historical and contemporary subjects. Stories greater than two years old are made available to the community through our website. The membership form is available on the website. If more information is required on either membership or volunteering for the Society, please give us a call or e-mail us. Activities by our regular band of willing volunteers in the Boatshed, continue to be diverse, interesting and satisfying but we need new helpers as the range of IT and web based activities grows. Many of these can be done remotely. Other activities range from routine mail outs to guiding dockyard tours, responding to research queries, researching and writing stories. -
Disposition of Allied Naval Forces in the Eastern Theater, 8 December
Disposition of Allied Naval Forces in the Eastern Theater 8 December 1941 Eastern Fleet: Admiral Sir Tom Philips In Singapore: HMS Prince of Wales (Battleship) HMS Repulse (Battlecruiser) HMS Danae (Light cruiser) HMS Dragon (Light cruiser) HMS Durban (Light cruiser) HMS Electra (Destroyer) HMS Express (Destroyer) HMS Tenedos (Destroyer) HMAS Vampire (Destroyer) HMS Dragonfly (Gunboat) HMS Grasshopper (Gunboat) HMS Scorpion (Gunboat) Manoora (Armed merchant cruiser) Kanimbla (Armed merchant cruiser) Refitting: HMS Mauritius (Cruiser) HMS Encounter (Destroyer) HMS Jupiter (Destroyer) HMS Stronghold (Destroyer) HMS Vendetta (Destroyer) HMS Isis (Destroyer) HMS Rover (Submarine In Hong Kong: HMS Scout (Destroyer)(sailed for Singapore on 12/8/41) HMS Thanet (Destroyer)(sailed for Singapore on 12/8/41) HMS Tern (Gunboat) HMS Cicala (Gunboat) HMS Robin (Gunboat) 8 Motor Torpeado Boats Under Repair: HMS Thracian (Destroyer) HMS Moth (Gunboat) East Indies Squadron based on Ceylon: HMS Revenge (Battleship) HMS Exeter (Heavy cruiser)(sailed for Singapore on 12/10/41) Corfu (Armed merchant cruiser) Ranchi (Armed merchant cruiser) Refitting: HMS Hermes (Aircraft Carrier)(in Durban) HMS Enterprise (Light Cruiser) Australian & New Zealand Squadrons: HMAS Canberra (Heavy cruiser) HMAS Adelaide (Light cruiser) HMAS Perth (Light cruiser) HMS Achilles (Light cruiser) HMS Leander (Light cruiser) Westralia (Armed merchant cruiser) 1 Le Triomphant (Free French)(Destroyer) HMS Swan (Sloop) HMS Warrego (Sloop) Chevreuil (Free French)(Sloop) Refitting: Monowai -
Issue 16 February 2018
CALL THE HANDS NHSA DIGITAL NEWSLETTER Issue No.16 February 2018 From the President Welcome to our first edition of Call the Hands for 2018. Since December, the wreck of HMAS AE1 has been discovered, STS Young Endeavour celebrated 30 years of service and Society members have been involved in several interesting activities. In the week prior to Christmas the discovery of HMAS AE1, excited the nation and ended the Navy’s longest mystery. AE1 was lost off the island of Rabaul on 14 September 1914 with all 35 crew members. The wreck site will remain ‘close held’ by Find AE1 Expedition member organisations until appropriate measures are taken to protect the site. Expedition leader, retired Rear Admiral Peter Briggs who has worked much of his life to find HMAS AE1 and his colleagues are saluted for this historic achievement. On 16 January the Commanding Officer HMAS Hobart, Captain John Stavridis and Supply Officer, Lieutenant Commander Mark Lee visited the Boatshed to acquaint themselves with an important HMAS Hobart heritage item, the Captain’s table from HMAS Hobart (I). The Society has held the table in trust since Hobart (II) decommissioned in May 2000. Descendants of HMAS Patricia Cam crew members and the community marked the 76th anniversary of her loss with a series of events in Darwin, Gosford, Sydney and Canberra from 20 to 22 January. Patricia Cam sank on 22 January 1943 after being bombed by a Japanese float plane. Society members participated in the Gosford (plaque unveiling where she was built) and Canberra last post ceremony at the Australian War Memorial. -
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Argyll Etkin Limited Argyll Worldwide Stamps and Postal History featuring The John Crowe Collection of Australian Air Mails; Napoleonic Wars with Nelson & Napoleon Letters; Forces Mail from the Alistair Kennedy Collection; The Damásio Collection of Western Australia; Africa Air Mails; Iceland; Japan; KUT; Cape of Good Hope and Great Britain Lot 1039 Lot 671 Friday 1st March 2019 1st March Friday Lot 297 2nd Floor, 1 Wardour Street, London, W1D 6PA To be sold by Auction on Friday 1st March 2019 at 11am Tel: 0207 930 6100 Fax: 0207 494 2881 at The Regus Conference Centre, No. 1 Northumberland Avenue, London W.C.2 Lot 185 Lot 861 Lot 438 Lot 828 Lot 1054 Auction number 43 of G.B & Worldwide Stamps and Postal History featuring The John Crowe Collection of Australian Air Mails; Napoleonic Wars with Nelson & Napoleon Letters; Selected Forces Mail from the Alistair Kennedy Collection; The Damásio Collection of Western Australia; Africa Air Mails; Iceland; Japan; KUT; Cape of Good Hope; Sudan; Hong Kong; Aden and Great Britain to be sold by Auction at The Regus Conference Centre, No 1 Northumberland Avenue, London, WC2 (located just a few yards from Trafalgar Square) on Friday 1st March 2019 at 11am ******** Enquiries regarding this auction - Telephone No. 0207 930 6100 Philatelic Enquiries - Patrick Frost or Adam Cooke General Enquiries - Phyllis Wills Please note, during the despatch process our phone lines are open as follows: First & Second Despatch Weeks (4th to 15th March) - 11am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm thereafter we revert to our normal -
BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES I an Agency of the British Government I • ~Llln:11: L9'r PLAZA NS:W Ynllpll
T he fo llowi ng pamphlets may be obtained on reguest from BRIT ISH I NF ORM A T I O SER V I CES )0 Rockefell e r Plaza, ew York 20, . Y F L YI G B OJ\ll3S B RITA IN VE R U J AP AN 50 , .. ACTS ABOUT I DJA B RITAIN A D T H E COMJ\ION P OL TH E B R I Tl ~ H COJ\!MON\X' FA l.Tl-I Al'D EMPIRE BRLT Ai l , an ill ustr,1ted monthly m.1gazine ub cri ption , 1.00 ,1 ye.i r in the Un ited St.1 tes; J .20 in C.inada. ,.UBLISHED JANUARY, 1945, BY BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES I An Agency of the British Government I • ~llln:11: L9'R PLAZA NS:W YnllPll .,,. .. v OMJETHING TO GO ON WITH HE aim of this booklet is to outlme bneB.y the very substan T tial part Britain has played so far in the fight against Japan. The people of Great Bntam, although aware that their contribu tion is cons1derable, st1ll count it as only "something to go on w1th" until the menace of Nazism near at home has been wiped out, and the nat10n s hands are free to devote all efforts to the task of victory over Japan. To the Bnt1sh nation as a whole, it ts no more than a 'token' -even though to the Bnt1sh sold1ers and aumen who have fought and d1ed 111 the steam mg Jungles and malarial swamps of Malaya and Burma, 1t 1s a great deal more they have given everything. -
CHAPTER 1 6 DEFEAT in ABDA RILE the Japanese Surface Forces
CHAPTER 1 6 DEFEAT IN ABDA RILE the Japanese surface forces stealing up the Musi River wer e W being continuously attacked by Allied air forces on the 15th Feb- ruary, Doorman's striking force was the target for repeated fierce attack s by Japanese aircraft to the east of Banka Island . The force weighed and left Oosthaven at 4 p .m. on the 14th, and formed in two columns . The Dutch cruisers, led by De Ruyter, were to starboard ; and the British, led by Hobart as Senior Officer, to port . The six U.S. destroyers screened ahead ; and three Dutch astern. One of the four Dutch ships had bee n sent on ahead to mark Two Brothers Island off the south-east coast o f Sumatra, and join later. Air reconnaissance on the 13th had indicated four groups of enemy vessels : two cruisers, two destroyers, and two transports about sixty miles south of the Anambas Islands, steering south-west a t 10 a.m. ; one cruiser, three destroyers and eight transports some twenty miles to the eastward of the first group, and steering south at 10.30 a.m. ; three cruisers, five destroyers and one transport, about sixty miles nort h of Banka Island and steering west at 3 .30 p.m.; and two destroyers with fourteen transports about 100 miles north of Billiton island, and steerin g S.S.W., at 4.30 p.m. Doorman led his force northwards in accordance with the decision s reached by him and Helfrich—to go northwards through Gaspar Strait, round Banka, and back through Banka Strait, "destroying any enemy force s seen". -
World War Two Memorial Board Listing List Compiled from Commonweath War Graves Commission Web-Site and a Variety of Other Specialist Listings Related to Naval History
Printed: 27/01/2012 World War Two Memorial Board Listing List compiled from Commonweath War Graves Commission web-site and a variety of other specialist listings related to naval history. The column headed "Rel" shows an assessment of the reliability of identification A thru' C Rel. Name Title Year Died Circumstances First Names Honours Age Conway Dates Achievements A Ainley FO RAF 1941 Pilot, 69 Sqdn - Marylands - Strategic recce missions (photo) in Mediterranean Frederick Redfearn 26 Widow living in Cheshire. OB of Birkenhead Institute 29/31 Entered A/P.O. Buried in Phaleron cemetery Greece. Reported in 26/7/38, NZ press as resident prior to war promoted F.O. 4/10/40 A Aitken Lt RNR 1943 HMS Polyanthus - Flower Cl Corvette, In Command John Gordon 39 Hit by GNAT torpedo from U-Boat (U-952) 21.9.43 18/19 CO One survivor picked up by HMS Itchen, but lost when she was sunk two days later A Allen Civilian 1945 Malaya civilian war dead John Charles 56 Died in Singapore (interned) 05/06 A Allen FO RAF 1940 Pilot 151 RNZAF Sqdn - Hurricanes, KIA over North Sea James Henry Leslie 24 New Zealander. Nephew of Lawrence Holt, Served time in Blue Funnel 31/33 KGM '33, Capt http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cen 1stXV and 1st XI otaph/17192.detail B Anderson Capt Army 1942 Army in Burma Reserve of Officers Oliver Charles 41 Name on Rangoon Memorial 16/18 A Ardley Lt Cdr RNR 1942 HMS Stag - Shore establishment Richard Arthur Blyth Polar Medal 36 Killed in action in Tobruk 21/22 Chief Officer Was Asst Harbour Master Haifa 1939, Specialised RRS Discovery in Hydrography in 1937 A Bailey Master MN 1942 SS Amarylis, Panamanian registered John Herbert Reid 39 No information, could be "Amaryllis", but still not listed 18/19 LtCdr RNR Described as "Staff Captain" A Baker S/Lt RNR 1942 HMS Kipling - Destroyer. -
The Navy in South Australia from Colonial Days to Present
OCCASIONAL PAPER 62 Call the Hands Issue No. 34 September 2019 The Navy in South Australia from Colonial Days to the Present By Dennis J Weatherall JP TM AFAITT(L) LSM Volunteer Researcher, Naval Historical Society of Australia It’s reputed that the first sighting of the southern coast of our Great South Land was by a Dutch ship in 1627 the “Gulden Zeepaard” under the command of a Francois Thijssen. The next record accords Rear Admiral Bruny D’Entrecasteaux in the French war ship “La Recherche”. He was looking for La Perouse who was on a voyage of discovery in 1788, in company with “Boussole” and “Astralabe”, both the latter seemingly disappearing without trace. Able Tasman probably saw the same coast even earlier in 1644 from his sketch charts. Another voyager was Lt. John McCluer of the Bombay Marine Company in 1790, followed by Captain Matthew Flinders in 1802-1803. A Lt. James Grant in January 1800, in command of “HMS Lady Nelson” (a 60 ton Brig), discovered and named parts of the coast such as Cape Banks, Cape Northumberland, Mount Gambier, Mount Schanck. He was promoted to Commander after a battle with the Dutch in 1805 off today’s Netherlands and he was remembered with a memorial atop Mt Gambier in 1900 for his discoveries. The Province of South Australia (as opposed to Colony)1 was established in December 1833 when the British Parliament passed the South Australian Act. South Australia was in fact called a “Province” rather than a Colony to distinguish it from other Colonies that had transportation as their main source of population. -
Issue 4, December 2016
CALL THE HANDS NHSA NEWSLETTER Issue No. 4 December 2016 From the President Acceptance and the growing number of subscribers to Call The Hands is most encouraging as is the ready contribution of interesting stories from members. Thanks in this regard go to Tom de Voil and Peter Poland whose contributions on HMAS Melbourne III and lifting of the siege of Tobruk are featured in this edition. The Society achieved an important milestone on 2 November with re-establishment of the ACT Chapter of the Society. Members can read more about it in the December edition of the Buzz, the Society's quarterly newsletter. The well attended inaugural meeting which was also attended by many non members from like minded organisations in the 'Navy Family' elected a Committee of four; Simon Cullen, Tony Vickers, Kathryn Spurling and David Manolas. With this talented and experienced team steering the Chapter an interesting range of activities and opportunities is anticipated for members. In early November I was fortunate to visit Melbourne and meet with Victorian Chapter President, Rex Williams and the Bird Family at the Chapters new meeting place, the Glen Waverley RSL Club. Here it was a great pleasure to present George Bird with Honorary Life Membership of the Society. George has served on the Committee and as Treasurer for many years. More about George and his Service is in this edition. The Society's National AGM was conducted in Sydney on 22 November following the Victorian and Western Australian Chapter AGMs in recent weeks. A few changes to office bearers occurred with the key change at the National level being the retirement of David McFall and election of Geoffrey Barnes to the Committee. -
NMRN Accounts 17/18
Charity number: 1126283 Company Number: 06699696 The National Museum of the Royal Navy A company limited by guarantee Trustees’ performance report and consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2018 The National Museum of the Royal Navy (A company limited by guarantee) Company number: 06699696 Contents Legal and administrative information .................................................................................................................... 3 Foreword ........................................................................................................................................................................4 Organisation chart .......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Performance Report ...................................................................................................................................................... 6 Overview ........................................................................................................................................................................6 Activities and Achievements .......................................................................................................................................... 6 Post balance sheet events ............................................................................................................................................10 Plans for Future Periods ...............................................................................................................................................10 -
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Enclave Empires: Britain, France and the Treaty-Port System in Japan, 1858-1868
The London School of Economics and Political Science Enclave Empires: Britain, France and the Treaty-Port System in Japan, 1858-1868 Scott W Gilfillan A thesis submitted to the Department of International History of the London School of Economics for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy London, September 2016 1 Declaration I certify that the thesis I have presented for examination for the PhD degree of the London School of Economics and Political Science is solely my own work other than where I have clearly indicated that it is the work of others (in which case the extent of any work carried out jointly by me and any other person is clearly identified in it). The copy right of this thesis rests with the author. Quotation from it is permitted, provided that full acknowledgement is made. This thesis may not be reproduced without my prior written consent. I warrant that this authorisation does not, to the best of my belief, infringe the rights of any third party. I declare that my thesis consists of 131,086 words. 2 Abstract This thesis will present a comparative and internationally contextualised history of Anglo-French relations in Japan between 1858 and 1868. It will introduce the concept of ‘enclave empires’ to describe the conduits for Western informal imperialism that were created in Japan by the imposition of the treaty-port system in 1858. It will aim to address longstanding gaps in the historiography by assessing that system as a multinational construct that depended upon the cooperation and collaboration of each treaty power operating within it.