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Niobe Papers Volume 7, Edited by F.W. Crickard and G.L. Witol, The Naval Officers Association of Canada, 1995, Paper – "The RAN and the Naval Reserve."
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The Royal Australian Navy, Volume III – The Australian Centenary History of Defence, Oxford University Press, 2001. Chapters spanning 1972–1991.
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King's Ships Were At Sea, J.V.P. Goldrick, US Naval Institute Press, 1984.
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