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Sail
into battle and around the world, in both War and Peace,
with the Royal Australian Navy, from its early Australian
Colonial Era beginnings, Boxer Rebellion, WW1 & Gallipoli,
WW2, Malaya, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam and in other famous
battles and campaigns.
Read
about heroes and famous Australian Navy Officers and Sailors.
Veterans personal accounts of battles and survival.
An
abundance of Australian, British and Commonwealth Naval
history, including Crossing The Line or Equator, The Rum
Ration, Origins of the Navy, Pussers and its meaning, Jack
Speak,naval jargon, nicknames and terminology, badgemen,
Matelots, Pussers Bones or Mah Jongg, Uckers including rules,
techniques and scoring.
View
and read about items of Naval Memorabilia - ID Cards, Short
Leave Cards. The Pussers Drivers License and more.
The
Royal Australian Navy Today, its Order Of Battle, ships,
submarines, naval aircraft and aviation, diving, including
historic ship lists and pictorial histories or visit the
armoury to see weapons, guns, missiles past and present.
Navy
Ranks, Commissioned Officers and Non Commissioned Officers,
Naval Rates, categories and jobs. Links to Navy Recruiting
and branch requirements and descriptions.
'Spin
Me A Dit' - Amusing everyday navy anecdotes of life in a
blue suit, navy memorabilia, navy and nautical traditions,
customs, phrases, songs, tunes, sea shanties, jokes, dits
and jargon.
All
New Photo Galleries of RAN Warships, Aircraft, Submarines,
Establishments, both past and present. Sailors at work and
at play. Weapons, Movies, Songs and much, much more
View
nominal lists of ship's crews and honour rolls, with links
to the Australian War Museum archives.
Navy
Movie Theatre. Streaming Video Clips from famous navy movies
and Australian Navy PR and Recruiting Campaigns of the past.
Use the site internal search engine to search for a name.
The Gun Plot Juke box also has some famous nautical songs
and tunes on it you may like.
Play
online (java) navy games such as Battleship and Missile
Blaster. Watch and play with interactive shockwave flash
movies.
Learn
how to play Pussers Ludo, or 'Uckers' , Mahjongg or 'Pussers'
Bones, download your own set of pussers rules!
Check
Australian Tides, Weather, make nautical calculations online.
Rope, cordage, blocks, tackles, beaufort wind scale, semaphore.
Learn about the Ships Bell and how to tell time by Ship's
Bell, Watches at sea, or Bosun's Call in The Nautical Section.
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of 20 years experience at sea with the R.A.N. and has
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