The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NEW BRITAIN. 1914. PANORAMA OF RABAUL AND BLANCHE BAY ON THE OCCASION OF A VISIT BY PART OF THE GERMAN PACIFIC FLEET SHORTLY BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. THE SHIPS WERE THE SCHARNHORST, GNEISENAU, NURNBERG AND LEIPZIG. THESE SHIPS WERE LATER DESTROYED BY A BRITISH FLEET OFF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. (PICTURE PRESENTED BY THE REVEREND J.M. MARGETTS THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE). THIS JOINS H03340A.
RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN. 1914-07. VIEW OF SIMPSON HARBOUR, THE NORTHERN ARM OF BLANCHE BAY, TAKEN FROM THE TOWNSHIP JUST BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF WW1. THE VESSELS ARE THE GERMAN WARSHIPS SCHARNHORST, GNEISE
NEW BRITAIN, 1914-08. RABAUL ON SIMPSON HARBOUR, THE NORTHERN EXTENSION OF BLANCHE BAY, WAS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRE OF ALL GERMAN POSSESSIONS IN THE PACIFIC. THIS PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS FOUR GERMAN WARSHI
At Sea. c. November 1914. Ships of the German Navy off the coast of Chile. The photograph was taken from the Light Cruiser Dresden with next ahead Light Cruiser Nurnberg then Light Cruiser Leipzig, Cr
Imbros, Greece. October 1915. The armoured cruiser HMS Cornwall which replaced HMS Bacchante in the harbour. She was one of the ships which engaged the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau off Falkland Islands.
A map showing the apparent movements of the German Far Eastern Fleet and SMS Dresden, from the outbreak of the First World War until the action against the British ships Good Hope, Monmouth and Glasgo
Darwin, Northern Territory. 30 January 1916. The Royal Navy armoured cruiser HMS Cornwall at Darwin. Cornwall was one of the ships which engaged the German Navy cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau at t
