Well I was thinking an airship or derigible but they ran on hydrogen or helium ?
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Very good question.
Was it HMA Submarines AE1 and AE2 which sailed from Portsmouth on their maiden voyage to Australia? The passage took 83 days and was at the time the longest journey ever under taken by a submarine. At the time Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty.
The subs arrived in Sydney Australia on 24 May, 1914 but did not last long.
Within a year both submarines had been lost on active service, with AE1 lost during the campaign in German New Guinea, and AE2 lost in the Sea of Marmora during the Gallipoli Campaign.
Was it HMA Submarines AE1 and AE2 which sailed from Portsmouth on their maiden voyage to Australia? The passage took 83 days and was at the time the longest journey ever under taken by a submarine. At the time Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty.
The subs arrived in Sydney Australia on 24 May, 1914 but did not last long.
Within a year both submarines had been lost on active service, with AE1 lost during the campaign in German New Guinea, and AE2 lost in the Sea of Marmora during the Gallipoli Campaign.
What can I say when it has all been said , well done Dr Duck AE2 was the one , sorry Magilla but what a difference one letter makes .
AE2 was the only allied vessel to get through the Dardanelles during the Gallipolli Campaign when Winston Churchill was Lord of the Admiralty and was able to follow its orders to " wreak havoc amongst the Turkish fleet " before being shelled when surfacing and sunk
Yours again Dr Duck
AE2 was the only allied vessel to get through the Dardanelles during the Gallipolli Campaign when Winston Churchill was Lord of the Admiralty and was able to follow its orders to " wreak havoc amongst the Turkish fleet " before being shelled when surfacing and sunk
Yours again Dr Duck
I'd be happy to give it to Magilla, as he only had a typo from the correct answer?
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It wasn't a typo, a British built B.E.2 aircraft was the first airplane to fly across Australia and it did it in 1914. Strange that two different vehicles fit the clues so well.
This will probably come up with a google search but at short notice will have to do. Where was our Prime Minister when Rabaul was being overrun by the Japanese and why was he there?
This will probably come up with a google search but at short notice will have to do. Where was our Prime Minister when Rabaul was being overrun by the Japanese and why was he there?
John Cutin spent two weeks in Perth with his family suffering servere stress from late January to early February 1943.
I believe that at some stage around that time Prime Minister Curtin travelled to the United States to address the American people for support in the event of Australia being invaded by Japan after Churchill denied British help after the Arcadia conference . Not sure if it was an address to congress or not. ?? Long shot
During the Christmas of 1941 and the first weeks of 1942, Curtin called on Churchill to come to the defence of Australia, as promised. On 5 January 1942, he confided to Elsie Curtin, who had left Canberra for Perth the day after Pearl Harbor, the war goes very badly and I have a cable fight with Churchill almost daily. Aware of the severe stress, colleagues convinced Curtin to take a break with his family and, in late January he went home to Perth for two weeks.
http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/curtin/in-office.aspx
http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/curtin/in-office.aspx
Magilla said:
Just a wild guess but was he visiting a gold mine or out running a high banker in Kalgooli
Because I have no bloody idea :8
Just a guess but was he in the Mildura bowling club having a beer? :lol:
Bloody hell he must have been on the great southern train line heading over to Perth.
Another wild guess Bonnie Vale ?
Another wild guess Bonnie Vale ?
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nucopia said:
Near enough, he was actually at a railway stop called Karonie, 111 kms East of Kalgoorlie. His train was delayed there because the rail line had been washed away at a creek further down the line. He received a lot of flack because he was out of communication at such an important time.
wouldn't ya think they would have flown him there in a DC3 or something, second thoughts there might not have been enough stops for fuel, or even airports.Very interesting man.. ex alcoholic etc.. really great leader in our time of peril. Isn't it sad we don't have those type of 'men of vision ' today.
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