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Straws in the Wind [1925, British Navy]

Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of Georgia, USA https://books.google.com/books?id=WE5CNC8dBHQC The author, born in 1885, joined the Royal Navy in 1900 as a cadet on a training ship. He was accepted into submarine training in 1906. The Australian Government commissioned two submarines to be built in England as the commencement of an Australian flotilla and in 1913 when these were built, Stoker was appointed Captain of Submarine AE2 (i.e. Australian E2). Following the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, AE2, and the other Australian submarine AE1, joined the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (ANMEF) to capture the German colony New Guinea. The German territories surrendering on 22 September; AE2 patrolled the sea around Fiji and returned to Sydney for maintenance on 16 November. The Australian Navy Board then cabled the Admiralty in England to offer AE2 for service in home waters, which was accepted. On 28 January 1915, AE2 arrived at Suez, where it joined the Mediterranean Fleet, which operated in support of the Dardanelles campaign. On 30 April 1915 AE2 was damaged by an Ottoman torpedo boat and Stoker was forced to surren

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