THE HISTORIC EVENTS - 25 YEARS AGO April & May 1994 20 April 1994: “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” was officially recognised alongside “Die Stem van Suid-Afrika” as the National Anthem. The National An [...]
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03
May
2019
Commander Leon Steyn, SA Naval Museum The Navy Cross (South Africa); post-nominal letters CN (Crux Navalis); was a military decoration, instituted in 1987 to replace the Honoris Crux decoration and aw [...]
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15
Mar
2019
HISTORIC PENNANT NUMBERS & THE NEW BIRO IPVs
Commander Leon Steyn The South African Navy Museum can be regarded as the "Memory of the Fleet". In this respect the museum assisted Navy Headquarters in Pretoria recently, whom had requested the co [...]
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05
Feb
2019
THE FUTURE OF SAS SOMERSET
THE FUTURE OF SAS SOMERSET. The SA Naval Museum has an important part to play to ensure the preservation of our naval heritage in South Africa. This is the content of a recent memo that was sent to IZ [...]
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11
Dec
2018
Kalk Bay Tragedy Remembered
On Friday the 17th of December 1965 at about 10:50 in the morning a South African Navy 32-foot cutter, (a wooden training boat) manned by men of the newly established South African Coloured Corps, ove [...]
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