The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The British tanker Oil Pioneer on fire after being shelled by the German battleship Gneisenau in the course of Operation JUNO. The destroyer Hermann Schoemann (Z7) then sank Oil Pioneer with a torpedo. Only one crew member was picked up.
On a Carley float the sole survivor of the sinking of Oil Pioneer, an oil tanker owned by the British Oil Shipping Company, approaches the German 14,000-ton cruiser Admiral Hipper. The tanker was sunk
The two German battleships Scharnhorst (1) and Gneisenau (2), seen from the torpedo elevator compartment of the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper during Operation Juno.
Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915-05-25. Soldiers of the 10th Infantry Battalion watch from the slope of a hill as, in the distance, a Royal Navy (RN) destroyer takes the crew off the stricken RN bat
Capt Henry F G Talbot RN, of sunken battleship HMS Majestic boarding HMS Lord Nelson at Mudros, after being picked up by a destroyer. (?HMS Queen Elizabeth, see tallyband of sailor at left).
AT SEA. 1943. CREW FROM A GERMAN U-BOAT SWIM TOWARDS THE BRITISH CORVETTE HMS STARWORT TO BE PICKED UP AFTER THEIR U-BOAT BEGAN SINKING AFTER BEING FORCED TO THE SURFACE. (BRITISH ADMIRALTY PHOTOGRAPH
HMAS Canberra on fire, with a US destroyer standing by, after torpedo and gunfire attacks by Japanese planes. The cruiser later sank.
