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A sketch, from a New Zealand newspaper, of the sinking Helen B Sterling.

Newcastle schoolboy’s shipwreck story

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:May 7, 2020
Post category:History Miscellaneous Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Stockton schoolboy Leslie Harris was 10 years old on January 5, 1922, when he went aboard the four-masted schooner Helen B Sterling, along with his mother Edith and his father…

HMAS Australia in Sydney Harbour in 1920

The end of HMAS Australia

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:September 12, 2019
Post category:History Militaria Vintage Photographs and Photography
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The Indefatigable class battlecruiser HMAS Australia was the Australian Navy’s first flagship, whose arrival in Sydney in October 1913 is popularly regarded as marking the coming of age of the…

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