The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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, GNEISENAU, NURNBERG AND LEIPZIG. ON THE NIGHT OF 1914-08-12 THE AUSTRALIAN WARSHIPS SYDNEY, PARRAMATTA, YARRA AND WARREGO RAIDED BLANCHE BAY BELIEVING THE GERMAN SHIPS MAY STILL BE THERE BUT IT WAS FOUND THEY HAD DEPARTED. THIS JOINS H03340 AS A PANORAMA.
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
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, NURN
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
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
Two German armoured cruisers, possibly the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau. Each carried eight 8.2 inch guns, six 5.9 inch guns and 20 3.4 inch guns, and had a displacement of 11 600 tons; their respec
The light cruiser HMAS Sydney steams towards Rabaul. The Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF), which included HMAS Sydney, HMAS Australia, HMAS Encounter, HMAS Warrego, HMAS Yarr
