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Editors’ Note
Semaphore issue 1 of 2006 has been omitted from this publication. The first issue of
Semaphore published each year is used to promote the Sea Power Centre – Australia’s
publications, conferences and other activities coordinated by the Centre. Issue 5 on
the Western Pacific Naval Symposium was withdrawn, revised and published as
issue 14.
All information contained in this volume was correct at the time of publication or, in
the case of papers being republished, was correct at the time of initial publication.
Some information, particularly related to operations in progress, may not be current.
However, information on the Armidale class patrol boats has been updated, as has the
Western Pacific Naval Symposium membership. All views presented in this publication
are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Commonwealth of
Australia, the Department of Defence or the Royal Australian Navy.
Images included throughout this publication belong to the Department of Defence,
unless otherwise indicated in the footnotes of each paper. We thank the following for
providing additional images: Dr Gregory P. Gilbert (SPC-A), Mr Andrew Mackinnon
(NHQ), and Mr John Perryman (SPC-A).
We gratefully acknowledge the efforts of the staff in the Directorate of Classified
Archival Records Review in the Department of Defence for the timely declassification
of the Radford–Collins Agreement, which allowed those documents to be published
here for the first time.