Frigate ARA Heroína (P-32) and ARA LT-81 Русский: Фрегат «Эроина» в сопровождении торпедного катера ARA LT-81
Español: ARA Piedra Buena (P-36) vista a través del periscopio de ataque del sumergible clase Balao ARA Santiago del Estero (S-12)
Español: Barca finlandesa Moshulu saliendo cargado de trigo de Buenos Aires Русский: Финский барк «Мошулу» (?) в порту Буэнос-Айреса. Капитан судна — Микаэль Сьегрен (Mikael Sjögren) English: The Finnish barque More
A cruiser in the Derwent, circa 1900. Ted Lidster collection Public domain photograph of Navy warship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
6,629 GRT cargo steamship Admiral Codrington, built in 1918 by William Doxford & Sons of Sunderland for Embiricos Line of London. On 14 April 1918 the 838 GRT cargo steamship Southgare collided with her off Fla More
AWM caption: "SYDNEY, NSW. 1943. STARBOARD BOW VIEW OF THE HOSPITAL SHIP CENTAUR. NOTE THE PROMINENT RED CROSSES AND GREEN LINES ON HER HULL. RED CROSSES ARE ALSO ATTACHED TO HER FUNNEL. THE CENTAUR WAS TORPEDO More
AWM caption: "Yokohama, Japan. c. 1945-09. A group portrait taken a few minutes after the RAAF's Chief of the Air Staff, Air Vice-Marshal (AVM) George Jones had set foot on Japanese soil at Yokohama, with the U More
US cargo liner Alcoa Corsair, launched in 1947 Public domain image of a passenger ship, ocean liner, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gaff rigged ketch Amity Public domain photograph of a ship, sailing ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Anzac Beach at 8am on 25 April 1915. Men from the Australian 4th Battalion (1st Brigade) and Jacob's 26th Indian Mountain Battery are seen landing. The men in the foreground belong to the 1st Brigade staff. More
Troops landing in Anzac Cove on the morning of 25 April 1915. The horse boats in the foreground have been landing mules for Jacob's 26th Indian Mountain Battery. In the background is the cruiser HMS Bacchante More
German troops embarking on the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper at Cuxhaven, Germany, for the invasion of Norway, in 1940. Note the Arado Ar 196 floatplane.
1,471 GRT cargo steamship Arana, built by A Rodger and Company of Port Glasgow in 1897 for Robert MacAndrew & Co of Glasgow. Cia Maritima of Barcelona bought her in 1913 and sold her to Cia Trasmediterranea in More
The four masted barque „Archibald Russel“ and the four masted barque „Ponape“.
12,269 GRT passenger and cargo steamship Armagh, built in 1917 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. In December 1923 when heavily laden leaving Liverpool she groun More
An United Molasses Co / Athel Line tanker. Athelmonarch was an 8,995 GRT motor ship built in 1928 by Wm Hamilton & Co of Port Glasgow and sunk in 1943 in the eastern Mediterranean by a German submarine. See com More
HMAS Australia and HMAS Arunta bombarding Cape Gloucester viewed from HMAS Shropshire
3,662 GRT sail- and steamship Australasian, built in 1884 by Rovert Napier & Co of Govan, Glasgow for George Thompson & Son (Aberdeen Line). In 1906 the Ottoman government bought her and renamed her Scham. In 1 More
AWM Caption: HMAS Australia passing under the Forth Bridge in Scotland. While serving with the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet from February 1915 until the end of the First World War, she was flagship of the 2nd Battl More
AWM Caption: "SYDNEY, NSW. C.1880. SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY'S SQUADRON ON THE AUSTRALIA STATION MOORED IN FARM COVE. (LEFT TO RIGHT) SCREW SLOOP HMS EGERIA, SCREW CORVETTE HMS RAPID, SCREW SLOOP HMS ALERT, SCREW More
AWM Caption: SYDNEY, NSW. THE NSW 2ND CLASS TORPEDO BOAT AVERNUS STEAMING DOWN SYDNEY HARBOUR. THE AVERNUS AND HER SISTER SHIP ACHERON WERE BUILT IN SYDNEY AND WERE COMMISSIONED IN 1885. BOTH TORPEDO BOATS WER More
1,480 GRT sail- and steamship Avoca, built in 1866 by Wm Denny of Dumbarton for P&O. The Sultan of Zanzibar bought her in 1882. Indian interests bought her in 1896 and she was scrapped in 1900 in Bombay.
The Krait, the vessel which carried the men of Z Special Unit on Operation Jaywick, the successful raid on Singapore Harbour on the night of 1943-09-26.
The Dutch Cruiser Java, which was sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy on 27 February 1942 during the Battle of the Java Sea.
3,404 GRT cargo steamship Baron Saltoun, built in 1927 by the Ayrshire Dockyard Co of Irvine for Hugh Hogarth & Co ("Baron Line") of Glasgow. In June 1940 she was sunk by a mine off Cherbourg in the English Channel.
The four masted barque Manchester at anchor. Public domain photograph of a ship, sailing ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The German battleship Tirpitz manoeuvring in the Kieler Förde, north-east of Strande, Germany.
Sail- and steamship Black Swan Public domain photograph of a ship, sailing ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bomb spray obscures the British cruiser HMS Exeter as Exeter and the Australian cruiser, HMAS Hobart, manoeuvered during a Japanese air attack in the Java Sea on 15 February 1942. Her "A" turret can be just see More
AWM Caption: Java Sea. 15 February 1942. Bomb spray surrounds the Royal Netherlands cruiser, Java, during a Japanese air attack. The Dutch ship was one of the ships involved in the operations against the Japane More
5,408 GRT cargo ship Canadian Explorer, built in 1921 by Halifax Shipyards of Nova Scotia for the Canadian National Steamship Co. In 1933 Achille Lauro of Naples bought her and renamed her Achille Lauro.
1,472 GRT five-masted schooner Cap Vert below the Clifton Suspension Bridge on the River Avon in Bristol, England. She was built by the William Lyall Shipbuilding Co of North Vancouver, British Columbia in 1918
Cie. des Chargeurs Réunis' 5,817 GRT cargo steamship Casamance. Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire built her in 1921. She escaped France's capitulation to Germany in June 1940 and rescued 27 survivors of the Q-s More
Ellerman Lines' cargo ship City of Ely
9,972 GRT cargo steamship TSS City of Lucknow, built in 1946 by Wm Denny Bros of Dumbarton for Ellerman Lines. Alexandra Navigation Corp of Monrovia bought her in 1963 and renamed her Lisboa. Outerocean Navigat More
Ellerman Lines' cargo steamship City of Naples, built in 1908 and wrecked on rocks off Ommaizaki, Japan in 1926 http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/14007.asp
4,606 GRT cargo ship Clan Maciver, built by Lithgows of Port Glasgow in 1921 for Clan Line. In 1951 Cia Maritima Carrena of Costa Rica bought her and renamed her Carrena. Gulf Steamships of Karachi bought her i More
Alfred Booth & Co's 5,051 GRT cargo steamship Clement: built by Cammell, Laird & Co of Birkenhead in 1934 and sunk by the German cruiser Graf Spee on 30 September 1939.)
FREMANTLE, WA. 1942. PORT SIDE AERIAL VIEW OF THE DUTCH DESTROYER TJERK HIDDES (G16), EX HMS NONPARIEL. NOT THE TYPE 285 FIRE CONTROL RADAR MOUNTED ON THE HIGH ANGLE DIRECTOR AT THE AFTER END OF THE BRIDGE STRU More
640 GRT cargo steamship Dingadee, built by the Queenstown & Passage West Dock Co of Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland in 1883 for the Australasian Steam Navigation Company, which in 1887 became the Australian Unit More
SS Doomba accompanied by two smaller pleasure craft Public domain photograph of ferry, steam boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
8,131 GRT Union-Castle liner Dunluce Castle, built in 1904 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast and sold for scrap in July 1939. In the Second World the Admiralty acquired her as an accommodation ship. She was scrap More
Langley Brothers' steamship Fitzroy Loading at Coffs Harbour, New South Wales
Norwegian whaling factory N. T. Nielsen-Alonso of Larvik, ex. Custodian (1900). Sunk by German submarine in 1943 Norsk bokmål: Flytende hvalkokeri «N. T. Nielsen-Alonso» i Antarktis
AWM Caption: "Port bow view of the cruiser HMAS Adelaide. She is shown in her third armament configuration, armed with seven 6 inch and two 4 inch AA guns. Two 6 inch guns have been replaced in the waist by dep More
The Bathurst class Corvette, HMAS Armidale, in Port Moresby harbour, after successfully convoying troopships and supply vessels from Australia.
The Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Arunta (I30) bombarding Japanese positions at Aitape, New Guinea, July 1944.
View of the bridge and forward 8-inch gun turrets of heavy cruiser HMAS Australia, 4 September 1944. The officer facing to the right is Captain Emile Dechaineux, commander of the Australia, who was killed durin More
The Indefatigable class battle cruiser HMAS Australia in Sydney Harbour shortly after the first entry of the Australian Fleet Unit into the harbour. The light cruisers HMAS Sydney and HMAS Melbourne are in the More
AWM Caption: SYDNEY, NSW. 1944-02-18. PORT BOW VIEW OF THE FRIGATE HMAS BARCOO (K375) SHOWING HER ORIGINAL APPEARANCE. SHE IS PAINTED DARK GREY, PROBABLY G10, ALL OVER. SHE IS FITTED WITH A TYPE 271 SURFACE SEA More
The Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Bataan (D191) screening the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ocean (R68), not visible, off Korea in 1952-1953.
Starboard side view of the Australian heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra (D33) burning and listing to starboard as she starts to sink following the Battle of Savo Island, taken from a United States destroyer.
The Australian heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra (D33) off Tulagi, 7-8 August 1942.
PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-09. H.M.A.S. CASTLEMAINE IN PORT MORESBY HARBOUR AFTER CONVOYING TROOPSHIPS AND SUPPLY VESSELS FROM AUSTRALIA.
HMAS GEELONG WWII. THE CREW OF AN OERLIKON ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN SCAN THE SKIES FOR ENEMY AIRCRAFT. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)
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Australian Bathurst class minesweepimg sloop HMAS Kalgoorlie in Sydney Harbour during World War II.
The Northern Territory administration vessel Kuru in Sydney Harbour in 1938. The ship was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Kuru in 1941.
Australian War Memorial image 300940. The Australian Navy landing ship tank HMAS Labuan departing Williamstown, Victoria for Macquarie Island
AWM Caption: PORT BOW VIEW OF THE FRIGATE HMAS LACHLAN POST WAR. SHE RETAINS HER TWO 4 INCH GUNS FORE AND AFT BUT NO CLOSE RANGE ARMAMENT IS FITTED, ALTHOUGH THERE IS AN EMPTY 20 MM OERLIKON SHIELD IN THE PORT More
Sydney, NSW. Port side view of the channel patrol vessel HMAS Lolita (14). Note the .303 Vickers MG aft and the depth charge on the stern.
Sydney, NSW. Starboard bow view of the channel patrol vessel HMAS Lolita (14). A second .303 Vickers MG has been fitted forward. Note the depth charges on the stern.
Sydney, NSW. Port bow view of the channel patrol vessel HMAS Lolita (14). A second .303 Vickers MG has been fitted forward. Note the depth charges on the stern.
AWM image 301916. SYDNEY, NSW. PORT SIDE VIEW OF THE CHANNEL PATROL BOAT HMAS MARLEAN (20). NOTE THE .303 INCH VICKERS MACHINE GUN AFT AND THE DEPTH CHARGES ON THE STERN. THE AUXILIARY ANTI SUBMARINE VESSEL HMA More
Australian Navy N Class Destroyer HMAS Nepal (G25) Public domain photograph of Navy warship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
AWM Caption: MEDITERRANEAN, 1942-06-16. P0RT QUARTER VIEW OF THE DESTROYER HMAS NESTOR (G02) LISTING TO PORT AND ABANDONED AFTER SUFFERING FATAL DAMAGE TO HER BOILER ROOMS IN A BOMBING ATTACK. NOTE THE HAMMOCKS More
AWM Caption: Melbourne, Vic. October 1944. Port forward view of N class destroyer HMAS Nizam. During her RAN service Nizam visited Melbourne twice for refits at Williamstown Naval Dockyard.
Aerial starboard view of the cruiser HMAS Perth. Note the director for the main armament behind the bridge. Behind and above it is the high angle control position for the 4 inch guns. Searchlights flank the for More
The light cruiser HMAS Pioneer in the Selbourne dry dock at Simonstown, South Africa. During 1915 and 1916 Pioneer remained off German East Africa, now Tanzania (ex Tanganyika), to blokade any attempts by Germa More
HMAS Shropshire arriving in Sydney in November 1945 carrying long serving Australian soldiers
AWM Caption: Aerial starboard bow view of the cruiser HMAS Sydney (II) (ex HMS Phaeton). Note the spar projecting forward of the bridge and single 4-inch AA guns amidships, which distinguished the Sydney from More
The light cruiser HMAS Sydney lying at anchor in a harbour in the Windward Islands. In January 1915 the Sydney was sent from Bermuda to Brazil in search of the German raider Kron-Prinz Wilhelm; she continued th More
AWM caption: "Group portrait of the ships company of HMAS Sydney after the successful action against the Italian Cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni on 19 July 1940. Men are crowded on the deck and stand in the rigging."
Australian War Memorial image 301441. HMAS Sydney arriving at her namesake city for the first time on 28 May 1949.
AERIAL PORT SIDE VIEW OF THE AUXILIARY MINESWEEPER HMAS TERKA AFTER CONVERSION FOR NAVAL SERVICE. A 12 POUNDER GUN HAS BEEN MOUNTED FORWARD AND HER FOREMAST REMOVED. HER IDENTIFICATION LETTERS (TR) ARE PAINTED More
C. 1940. STARBOARD SIDE VIEW OF THE DESTROYER HMAS VAMPIRE. Deutsch: Zerstörer HMAS Vampire ca. 1940
Members of B Company, 14/32nd Infantry Battalion with HMAS Vendetta at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain
The Australian troopship SS Zealandia, partly obscured by the Royal Australian Navy sloop HMAS Warrego (U73), with the United States Navy heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30), at Darwin, Northern Territories (Aust More
Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Wyatt Earp alongside at Nelson Pier, Williamstown, Victoria, preparing for voyage to Antarctica. Note deck cargo includes parts of a Royal Australian Air Force OS2U Kingfisher am More
AWM caption: Grimsby class sloop HMAS Yarra. Sunk by Japanese cruiser force about 400 miles south of Java on 1942-03-04 whilst escorting a convoy from Java to Fremantle.
The Royal Canadian Navy Tribal class destroyer HMCS Athabaskan (219) photographed from the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney (R17), probably in Korean waters.
The Canadian destroyer HMCS Restigouche (H00) preparing to pick up the survivors from a German U-boat which was attacked and sunk by a RAF Short Sunderland aircraft captained by Flying Officer L. H. Baveystock More
AWM image 303219. 1940. STARBOARD SIDE VIEW OF THE BRITISH TROOPSHIP MV DUNERA II WHICH TRANSPORTED AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND TROOPS TO THE MIDDLE EAST AS PART OF CONVOYS US.1 AND US.2 IN 1940-01 AND 1940-04 R More
Australian tug Irma, AT 2382, in 1946. Possibly at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Union Steam Ship Co of NZ's 2,830 GRT cargo steamship Kairanga
3,551 GRT cargo steamship Kaitoke in port. Sir Raylton Dixon & Co of Middlesbrough, England, built her in 1918 as War Palace. In 1919 she was renamed Cape Colony. Union SS Co of New Zealand bought her in 1920 a More
Illawarra Steam Navigation Company's 515 GRT steamship Kameruka, built in 1880 by Russell & Co at Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Scotland. She was wrecked in 1887 on Pedro Rocks, Moruya Heads, New South Wales
Cargo ship King David in port Public domain photograph of ship dock, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
4,536 GRT cargo motorship King Edwin, built by Harland & Wolff at Belfast in 1927 for Dodd, Thomson & Co ("King Line"). In 1943 she caught fire while unloading in the Grand Harbour, Valetta, Malta. She was decl More
3,180 GRT cargo steamship Kohso Maru, built in 1917 by Osaka Iron Works and owned by Osaka Shosen KK
992 GRT cargo steamship Kowhai. W Harkess & Son of Middlesbrough on Tees-side built her in 1910 as Hopeful. Coast Lines bought her and renamed her Devon Coast. The Union Steam Ship Co of New Zealand bought her More
French 12,358 GRT passenger motor ship Louis Lumiere in port. Penhoët of St Nazaire built her in 1951 for Chargeurs Réunis. In 1962 she was transferred to Messageries Maritimes. In 1967 Hong Kong owners bought More
Original caption: "The iron ship 'MacCallum More', 1740 tons, at Port Adelaide."
"Marion Frazer", a four-masted steel barque. Public domain photograph of a ship, sailing ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Passenger steamship Matangi, built in 1908 as Mourilyan. (From description supplied with photograph.)
P&O liner Mooltan on her final visit to Brisbane in 1954. (From description supplied with photograph.)
Passenger steamship Mourilyan Public domain photograph of warship, battleship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
23 August 1941. Aerial starboard side view of the UK refrigerated cargo motor ship Empire Star. Note the defensive armament consisting of a 4 inch gun right aft with a 12-pounder anti-aircraft gun sited above i More
Messageries Maritimes sail- and steamship Natal. In 1917 she collided with the ship Malgache and sank in the Mediterranean off Le Planier, killing 105 people.