The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Plymouth, England. 1918-07. A group of survivors from the transport ship SS Barunga which on 1918-07-15 was sunk by a German submarine 150 miles south west of the Scilly Isles. The ship was carrying 855 Australian soldiers, mainly invalids, home to Australia. The survivors were transferred to escorting destroyers and taken to Plymouth. The SS Barunga had been the German ship Sumatra captured in Sydney at the outbreak of war.
Boats picking up survivors from water after the torpedoing of SS Barunga. Barunga was on its way to Australia with 800 sick and wounded on board and was torpedoed at 4.30 pm on 15 July 1918 from a Ge
Group of survivors from SS Barunga which sunk after being struck by a torpedo on 15 July 1918. SS Barunga was formerly the German-Australian liner Sumatra of Hamburg, captured at Sydney, NSW, at the o
Group of survivors from SS Barunga which sunk after being struck by a torpedo on 15 July 1918. SS Barunga was formerly the German-Australian liner Sumatra of Hamburg, captured at Sydney, NSW, at the o
Sinking of the SS Barunga, after it was hit by a torpedo from a German submarine 150 miles south west of the Scilly Isles. Barunga was on its way to Australia with 800 sick and wounded on board and wa
Sinking of the SS Barunga. The destroyers Midge and Lance were on the spot and helped greatly in the rescue. Barunga was on its way to Australia with 800 sick and wounded on board and was torpedoed
Men climbing down rope ladders to life rafts which have been lowered into the water after the SS Barunga was hit by a torpedo from a German submarine 150 miles south west of the Scilly Isles. Barunga
