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Popular subjects Index to Naval Battles on AHOY Our Web Site AHOY carries a slew of articles recording many of these Naval Sea Battles, and it has been decided to provide a chronological index of these pieces to assist any of our readers interested in viewing any of these stories. Read the article. Count Felix von Luckner: Index of Ahoy's articles and correspondence  Read the article. The Voltaire Pages In some cases AHOY acts as a Post Office, trying to bring two interested parties together, so they may exchange information pertaining to some one who served in Voltaire. Given the level of interest raised in the ship, her action with Thor, demise, and the surviving crew members captivity in German POW camps, we have decided to consolidate all the Voltaire messages into a major subject on our AHOY Mac's Web Pages site called: THE VOLTAIRE PAGES. Read the article. The Athenia Page, index to articles about Passenger Liner Athenia Given all the interest in the sinking of the Passenger Liner Athenia on the day WW2 declared, and the fact that we have recently found some of the lists for her survivors, and those who died, we have decided to consolidate all our references to her on this site, The Athenia Page. Read the article. Index to the Submarine Articles  Read the article. Index to Naval Operations articles on Ahoy So that our readers who may be interested in articles on AHOY that covered a number of actions in WW2, and were prefaced by the term " Operations" in their title, and to make it simpler to access them, we have decided to consolidate this group under the heading: OPERATIONS PAGES, in the index on the left hand side of our Home Page. Read the article. Index for Personal Stories on AHOY Work in progress Read the article. Index for Hospital Ships on AHOY Work in progress Read the article.			Featured articles and links Menu • Contact me • Biography • About this site • Site map • Links • Mail and responses Main Features • Marauders of the Sea WW 1 • Marauders of the Sea WW 2 • Confederate Armed Raiders of the American Civil • Under Water Warfare • Enemy Submarine Activity off the Australian Coast in WW2 • H.M.A.S. Canberra and the Battle of Savo Island • Interview with Australians at War Film Archives • Index to Naval Battles on AHOY • Battle of the Atlantic. September 1939 - May 1945. Index to Ahoy Articles • Naval Battles in the Solomon Islands over August / November 1942 turn the tide of the Pacific War • Count Felix von Luckner: Index of Ahoy's articles and correspondence • HMS Voltaire Pages • The Athenia Pages • The Battle For Convoy ONS 5. 26th.April - 6th. May 1943 • Adolf Hitler and his WW2 Field Marshals • Jervis Year. The Class of 1936. Royal Australian Naval College • Passport to the World over 64 years. Pages from my Travel Diary • Early Explorations of Australia • Index to Submarine articles • Index to Naval Operations articles • Gentlemen Cordite: Lieutenant Commander Warwick Bracegirdle, RAN • Best way to reach me is via e-mail. I answer all queries. Latest updates * 10 May 2008 - Signal to British Pacific Fleet by Admiral Bruce Fraser on the day of signing the Japanese Surrender: * 03 May 2008 - Letters: Leslie George Thornton served in HMAS Shropshire * 03 May 2008 - Letters: Linda Dalton survived sinking of Athenia * 03 May 2008 - Survivors from Athenia rescued by Royal Navy destroyers, Escort, Electra and Fame, and landed at Gourock on the Clyde, Scotland: * 29 April 2008 - Letters: Jessie Lowe (Jessie Makay) a nurse/stewardess on the Athenia? * 29 April 2008 - Letters: Jean-Paul Lorcet participated in the battle of Mers el Kebir, managed to join the Free French Navy * 29 April 2008 - Letters: Von Luckner was a prisoner of war for a while on Ripapa Island near Lyttelton South Island New Zealand * 29 April 2008 - Letters: Liberty ship Liberty ship Roger B Taney torpedoed in the South Atlantic on the 2nd. of July 1943 * 25 April 2008 - Letters: Forthcominig article about rescue ship Stockport * 20 April 2008 - Letters: Under Ten Flags, movie of the German Armed Merchant Raider Atlantis * 20 April 2008 - Letters: German ships and or crews interned in Brisbane during WW1 * 20 April 2008 - New Zealand Hospital ship Maheno winds up a wreck on Fraser Island: * 20 April 2008 - Letters: Amphion class Gunnery: How was direct fire at very short range conducted? * 15 April 2008 - Letters: Report by Captain Wardle, HMS Alcantara * 10 April 2008 - Australian Light Cruiser HMAS Sydney 11, her Life, Death, and Finding the Wreck:   More       Stats

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