Leon Steyn Curator SA Naval Museum If you could choose a day to visit a museum with family or friends, what day of the week would it be? No school holidays yet, but it is week-end! The wind was blowin [...]
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Feb
2021
16
Feb
2021
IN ‘DIE BURGER’ – VLOOT VREDESABEL
Die Burger By 13 Januarie 2021
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12
Nov
2020
THE FINAL VOYAGE OF SAS GALESHEWE
SHORT HISTORY OF P1567 SAS HENDRIK MENTZ / SAS GALESHEWE Commander Leon Steyn South African Naval Museum P1567 was one of nine former Minister class strike craft in service with the South African Navy [...]
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17
Oct
2020
MUSEUM, MEMORY, MEMORIALISATION
MUSEUM, MEMORY, MEMORIALISATION “When people visit museums, they bring their life experiences with them. Often, their encounter with objects in the museum brings back vivid recollections, half-remembe [...]
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03
Oct
2020
THE NAVY SWORD OF PEACE
THE NAVY SWORD OF PEACE From: 'The South African Navy - 25 Years of Democracy' by Commander Leon Steyn (SA Naval Museum) The Navy Sword of Peace was presented to the South African Navy by the Wilkinso [...]
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19
Aug
2020
FRIGATES & DESTROYERS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN NAVY
From our weekly series on Frigates and Destroyers of the South African Naval (1946-2020) that featured on our museum facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SANavalMuseum/ , here is the entire collecti [...]
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15
Aug
2020
REOPENING OF THE MUSEUM – 1 SEPTEMBER 2020
We are glad to announce that the South African Naval Museum will re-open to the public on Tuesday 1 September 2020, but by public appointment only, at this stage. The museum will initially only be ope [...]
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Commander Leon Steyn SA Naval Museum SAS SKILPAD was an unlikely man-of-war, that started its war career in service of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine and continued to feature on the South African Navy li [...]
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