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They sang like kangaroos : Australia's Tinpot Navy in the Great War / Anthony Delano.

Title
They sang like kangaroos : Australia's Tinpot Navy in the Great War / Anthony Delano.
Author
Delano, Anthony.
Publication
Melbourne : Arcadia, 2012.

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viii, 246 p. : ill., ports; 24 cm.
Summary
Stories from the earliest days of the Royal Australian Navy that few Australians will have heard. Drama in Port Phillip Bay. German steamer with secret codebook on board taken at pistol point. The battlecruiser Australia, most powerful ship in the Southern Hemisphere, was also the unhappiest. Mutiny and a bitter homecoming.
Subject
  • Australia > History, Naval
  • Australia. Royal Australian Navy > History
  • Navies > Australia > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 247)
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781921875724 (pbk)
  • 1921875720 (pbk)
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Harvard Library