HMAS Perth saw action in many theatres of World War II. Photo: Geoffrey Ward David Manning survived the sinking of HMAS Perth in World War II. Photo: Penny Stephens ...
THE Navy has raised concern about the apparent looting of the wreck of the HMAS Perth, which was sunk near Java in 1942 with the loss of 353 lives. Claims that scrap merchants were stripping the HMAS ...
Millions of shipwrecks and archaeological sites lie under the ocean, including most infamously the Titanic, resting almost four kilometres below the North Atlantic. These relics are just as important ...
In the early hours of March 1, 1942, the Australian cruiser HMAS Perth and an American warship, USS Houston, ran into a powerful Japanese invasion fleet in the Sunda Strait in the Java Sea. In the ...