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ARA Heroína (P-32) with motor torpedo boat ARA LT-2 (P-81) escorting

ARA Heroína (P-32) with motor torpedo boat ARA LT-2 (P-81) escorting

Frigate ARA Heroína (P-32) and ARA LT-81 Русский: Фрегат «Эроина» в сопровождении торпедного катера ARA LT-81

Frigate Piedra Buena periscope photo

Frigate Piedra Buena periscope photo

Español: ARA Piedra Buena (P-36) vista a través del periscopio de ataque del sumergible clase Balao ARA Santiago del Estero (S-12)

Moshulu en Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Moshulu en Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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 (11658181665)

A cruiser in the Derwent, circa 1900 (11658181665)

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

State Lib Qld 1 133017 Admiral Codrington (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 133017 Admiral Codrington (ship)

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

AHS Centaur - Australian Troops in World War Two

AHS Centaur - Australian Troops in World War Two

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

Air Vice-Marshal George Jones, RAAF, at Yokohama, Japan, with USS General S. D. Sturgis (AP-137) in the background, circa in September 1945 (AWM OG3442)

Air Vice-Marshal George Jones, RAAF, at Yokohama, Japan, with USS Gene...

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

State Lib Qld 1 126563 Alcoa Corsair (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 126563 Alcoa Corsair (ship)

US cargo liner Alcoa Corsair, launched in 1947 Public domain image of a passenger ship, ocean liner, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

State Lib Qld 1 121916 Amity (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 121916 Amity (ship)

Gaff rigged ketch Amity Public domain photograph of a ship, sailing ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Anzac Beach 4th Bn landing 8am April 25 1915

Anzac Beach 4th Bn landing 8am April 25 1915

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

Anzac Cove and HMS Bacchante 25 April 1915

Anzac Cove and HMS Bacchante 25 April 1915

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

Ar 196 on cruiser Admiral Hipper c1941

Ar 196 on cruiser Admiral Hipper c1941

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.

State Lib Qld 1 133349 Arana (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 133349 Arana (ship)

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

Archibald Russel and Ponape - SLV H91.108-1794

Archibald Russel and Ponape - SLV H91.108-1794

The four masted barque „Archibald Russel“ and the four masted barque „Ponape“.

State Lib Qld 1 133469 Armagh (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 133469 Armagh (ship)

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

State Lib Qld 1 133517 Athelmonarch (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 133517 Athelmonarch (ship)

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

Aust ships Cape Gloucester (106687)

Aust ships Cape Gloucester (106687)

HMAS Australia and HMAS Arunta bombarding Cape Gloucester viewed from HMAS Shropshire

State Lib Qld 1 133565 Australasian (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 133565 Australasian (ship)

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

Australia Forth Bridge. Warship photograph collection

Australia Forth Bridge. Warship photograph collection

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

Australia Station Squadron (AWM 304426)

Australia Station Squadron (AWM 304426)

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

Avernus (AWM 306823), Sydney, Australia

Avernus (AWM 306823), Sydney, Australia

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

State Lib Qld 1 133593 Avoco (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 133593 Avoco (ship)

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.

AWM 044211 - A black and white photo of a boat in the water

AWM 044211 - A black and white photo of a boat in the water

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.

Awm 045393 HNLMS Java - Australian Troops in World War Two

Awm 045393 HNLMS Java - Australian Troops in World War Two

The Dutch Cruiser Java, which was sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy on 27 February 1942 during the Battle of the Java Sea.

State Lib Qld 1 133677 Baron Saltoun (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 133677 Baron Saltoun (ship)

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.

Barque Manchester - A black and white photo of a ship in the water

Barque Manchester - A black and white photo of a ship in the water

The four masted barque Manchester at anchor. Public domain photograph of a ship, sailing ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Battleship Tirpitz off Kiel Sept 1941

Battleship Tirpitz off Kiel Sept 1941

The German battleship Tirpitz manoeuvring in the Kieler Förde, north-east of Strande, Germany.

State Lib Qld 1 106992 Black Swan (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 106992 Black Swan (ship)

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

Bomb spray obscures the British cruiser HMS Exeter

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

Bomb spray surrounds the Royal Netherlands cruiser Java

Bomb spray surrounds the Royal Netherlands cruiser Java

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

State Lib Qld 1 128389 Canadian Explorer (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 128389 Canadian Explorer (ship)

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.

State Lib Qld 1 126643 Cap Vert (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 126643 Cap Vert (ship)

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

State Lib Qld 1 128349 Casamance (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 128349 Casamance (ship)

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

State Lib Qld 1 126115 City of Ely (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 126115 City of Ely (ship)

Ellerman Lines' cargo ship City of Ely

State Lib Qld 1 129297 City of Lucknow (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 129297 City of Lucknow (ship)

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

State Lib Qld 1 125023 City of Naples (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 125023 City of Naples (ship)

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

State Lib Qld 1 127623 Clan Maciver (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 127623 Clan Maciver (ship)

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

State Lib Qld 1 126639 Clement (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 126639 Clement (ship)

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.)

Destroyer Tjerk Hiddes C46259, British navy ship

Destroyer Tjerk Hiddes C46259, British navy ship

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

State Lib Qld 1 140223 Dingadee (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 140223 Dingadee (ship)

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

State Lib Qld 1 161735 Doomba (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 161735 Doomba (ship)

SS Doomba accompanied by two smaller pleasure craft Public domain photograph of ferry, steam boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

State Lib Qld 1 142763 Dunluce Castle (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 142763 Dunluce Castle (ship)

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

SS Fitzroy, New South Wales, Australia

SS Fitzroy, New South Wales, Australia

Langley Brothers' steamship Fitzroy Loading at Coffs Harbour, New South Wales

FLK N T Nielsen-Alonso - A black and white photo of a ship in the snow

FLK N T Nielsen-Alonso - A black and white photo of a ship in the snow

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

HMAS Adelaide (AWM 300081) during World War I

HMAS Adelaide (AWM 300081) during World War I

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

HMAS Armidale (AWM 026612) - Australia in World War Two

HMAS Armidale (AWM 026612) - Australia in World War Two

The Bathurst class Corvette, HMAS Armidale, in Port Moresby harbour, after successfully convoying troopships and supply vessels from Australia.

HMAS Arunta bombarding Japanese positions

HMAS Arunta bombarding Japanese positions

The Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Arunta (I30) bombarding Japanese positions at Aitape, New Guinea, July 1944.

HMAS Australia bridge - Australia in World War Two

HMAS Australia bridge - Australia in World War Two

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

HMAS Australia Sydney Oct 1913, Sydney, Australia

HMAS Australia Sydney Oct 1913, Sydney, Australia

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

HMAS Barcoo (300353). Warship photograph collection

HMAS Barcoo (300353). Warship photograph collection

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

HMAS Bataan (D191) underway off Korea c1952

HMAS Bataan (D191) underway off Korea c1952

The Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Bataan (D191) screening the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ocean (R68), not visible, off Korea in 1952-1953.

HMAS Camberra (D33) burning after Battle of Savo 1942

HMAS Camberra (D33) burning after Battle of Savo 1942

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.

HMAS Canberra (D33) off Tulagi, 7-8 August 1942 (AWM P05292.016)

HMAS Canberra (D33) off Tulagi, 7-8 August 1942 (AWM P05292.016)

The Australian heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra (D33) off Tulagi, 7-8 August 1942.

HMAS Castlemaine C10245. Warship photograph collection

HMAS Castlemaine C10245. Warship photograph collection

PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-09. H.M.A.S. CASTLEMAINE IN PORT MORESBY HARBOUR AFTER CONVOYING TROOPSHIPS AND SUPPLY VESSELS FROM AUSTRALIA.

HMAS Geelong - Oerlikon gun - Australia in World War Two

HMAS Geelong - Oerlikon gun - Australia in World War Two

HMAS GEELONG WWII. THE CREW OF AN OERLIKON ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN SCAN THE SKIES FOR ENEMY AIRCRAFT. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

HMAS J2 (AWM 301365-01) - Australian navy photo

HMAS J2 (AWM 301365-01) - Australian navy photo

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

HMAS Kalgoorlie. Warship photograph collection

HMAS Kalgoorlie. Warship photograph collection

Australian Bathurst class minesweepimg sloop HMAS Kalgoorlie in Sydney Harbour during World War II.

HMAS Kuru (300922). Warship photograph collection

HMAS Kuru (300922). Warship photograph collection

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.

HMAS Labuan. Warship photograph collection

HMAS Labuan. Warship photograph collection

Australian War Memorial image 300940. The Australian Navy landing ship tank HMAS Labuan departing Williamstown, Victoria for Macquarie Island

HMAS Lachlan. Warship photograph collection

HMAS Lachlan. Warship photograph collection

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

HMAS Lolita 3945797 - Australian navy photo

HMAS Lolita 3945797 - Australian navy photo

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.

HMAS Lolita 3945798, Sydney, Australia

HMAS Lolita 3945798, Sydney, Australia

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.

HMAS Lolita 4002759 - Public domain image of a steam boat

HMAS Lolita 4002759 - Public domain image of a steam boat

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.

HMAS Marlean on Sydney Harbour - Australian navy photo

HMAS Marlean on Sydney Harbour - Australian navy photo

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

HMAS Nepal AWM-P00490.031 - Australia in World War Two

HMAS Nepal AWM-P00490.031 - Australia in World War Two

Australian Navy N Class Destroyer HMAS Nepal (G25) Public domain photograph of Navy warship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

HMAS Nestor AWM-301085, British navy ship

HMAS Nestor AWM-301085, British navy ship

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

HMAS Nizam AWM-301090 - Australian navy photo

HMAS Nizam AWM-301090 - Australian navy photo

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.

HMAS Perth (AWM 301166) during World War I

HMAS Perth (AWM 301166) during World War I

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

HMAS Pioneer in the Selbourne dry dock at Simonstown

HMAS Pioneer in the Selbourne dry dock at Simonstown

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 (123797) - Australia in World War Two

HMAS Shropshire (123797) - Australia in World War Two

HMAS Shropshire arriving in Sydney in November 1945 carrying long serving Australian soldiers

HMAS Sydney (AWM 301473) cropped

HMAS Sydney (AWM 301473) cropped

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

HMAS Sydney (AWM 301473), British navy ship

HMAS Sydney (AWM 301473), British navy ship

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

HMAS Sydney 1912 during World War I

HMAS Sydney 1912 during World War I

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

HMAS Sydney 1934 crew - Australia in World War Two

HMAS Sydney 1934 crew - Australia in World War Two

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."

HMAS Sydney arrival 1949, Sydney, Australia

HMAS Sydney arrival 1949, Sydney, Australia

Australian War Memorial image 301441. HMAS Sydney arriving at her namesake city for the first time on 28 May 1949.

HMAS Terka 1941 AWM301501 - Australian navy photo

HMAS Terka 1941 AWM301501 - Australian navy photo

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

HMAS Vampire (AWM 012563) - Australia in World War Two

HMAS Vampire (AWM 012563) - Australia in World War Two

C. 1940. STARBOARD SIDE VIEW OF THE DESTROYER HMAS VAMPIRE. Deutsch: Zerstörer HMAS Vampire ca. 1940

HMAS Vendetta soldiers. Warship photograph collection

HMAS Vendetta soldiers. Warship photograph collection

Members of B Company, 14/32nd Infantry Battalion with HMAS Vendetta at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain

HMAS Warrego (U73) and USS Houston (CA-30) at Darwin in February 1942

HMAS Warrego (U73) and USS Houston (CA-30) at Darwin in February 1942

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

HMAS Wyatt Earp AWM301754 - Australian navy photo

HMAS Wyatt Earp AWM301754 - Australian navy photo

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

HMAS Yarra (AWM 016263) - Australia in World War Two

HMAS Yarra (AWM 016263) - Australia in World War Two

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.

HMCS Athabaskan AWM P05890.060 - Australian navy photo

HMCS Athabaskan AWM P05890.060 - Australian navy photo

The Royal Canadian Navy Tribal class destroyer HMCS Athabaskan (219) photographed from the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney (R17), probably in Korean waters.

HMCS Restigouche (H00) picking up U-boat survivors 1944

HMCS Restigouche (H00) picking up U-boat survivors 1944

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

HMT Dunera in 1940 - Australian Troops in World War Two

HMT Dunera in 1940 - Australian Troops in World War Two

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

State Lib Qld 1 123329 Tug ship, Irma, 1946

State Lib Qld 1 123329 Tug ship, Irma, 1946

Australian tug Irma, AT 2382, in 1946. Possibly at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

State Lib Qld 1 146107 Kairanga (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 146107 Kairanga (ship)

Union Steam Ship Co of NZ's 2,830 GRT cargo steamship Kairanga

State Lib Qld 1 142151 Kaitoke (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 142151 Kaitoke (ship)

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

Kameruka Ship Warship photograph collection

Kameruka Ship Warship photograph collection

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

State Lib Qld 1 146175 King David (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 146175 King David (ship)

Cargo ship King David in port Public domain photograph of ship dock, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

State Lib Qld 1 140907 King Edwin (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 140907 King Edwin (ship)

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

State Lib Qld 1 142191 Kohso Maru (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 142191 Kohso Maru (ship)

3,180 GRT cargo steamship Kohso Maru, built in 1917 by Osaka Iron Works and owned by Osaka Shosen KK

State Lib Qld 1 140823 Kowhai (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 140823 Kowhai (ship)

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

State Lib Qld 1 142103 Louis Lumiere (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 142103 Louis Lumiere (ship)

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

Mac Callum More (ship, 1873) - slsa PRG1373 5 81

Mac Callum More (ship, 1873) - slsa PRG1373 5 81

Original caption: "The iron ship 'MacCallum More', 1740 tons, at Port Adelaide."

Marion Frazer (ship, 1892) - SLV H99.220-1915

Marion Frazer (ship, 1892) - SLV H99.220-1915

"Marion Frazer", a four-masted steel barque. Public domain photograph of a ship, sailing ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

State Lib Qld 1 140587 Matangai (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 140587 Matangai (ship)

Passenger steamship Matangi, built in 1908 as Mourilyan. (From description supplied with photograph.)

State Lib Qld 1 167835 Mooltan (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 167835 Mooltan (ship)

P&O liner Mooltan on her final visit to Brisbane in 1954. (From description supplied with photograph.)

State Lib Qld 1 95320 Mourilyan (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 95320 Mourilyan (ship)

Passenger steamship Mourilyan Public domain photograph of warship, battleship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

MV Empire Star (1935) - Australian Troops in World War Two

MV Empire Star (1935) - Australian Troops in World War Two

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

State Lib Qld 1 141783 Natal (ship)

State Lib Qld 1 141783 Natal (ship)

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.

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