The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Bathurst class minesweeper/corvette HMAS Wallaroo. Commissioned on 15th July 1942 Wallaroo carried out anti-submarine patrols, escort duties and minesweeping off the south and west Australian coasts. On the night of 10th June 1943 whilst escorting a two ship us convoy sixty miles west of Fremantle, WA, Wallaroo was rammed on the starboard side by the US liberty ship, Henry Gilbert Costin killing two of the corvette's crewmen and wounding her captain. A third crewman, PM2278 Able Seaman (AB) J J Clarke, was lost overboard and presumed dead. Those killed in the collision were H1875 AB D L B Cowen and 2551 Motor Mechanic G W Garratty. At about 7am on 11th June Wallaroo capsized and sank with no further loss of life. The survivors were picked up by the Australian corvette HMAS Dubbo.
BAY OF BISCAY. 1943-05-29. SUNDERLAND T9114-E OF NO 461 SQUADRON RAAF, UNDER TOW BY THE FRENCH DESTROYER 'LA COMBATTANTE'. THE AIRCRAFT HAD LANDED TO PICK UP SIXTEEN SURVIVORS FROM TWO OTHER AIRCRAFT
Informal portrait of two RAN Petty Officers, H Rodject and S368 Albert Hall Rowland from Woolahra, NSW who got out emergency torches when HMAS Wallaroo, Australian built corvette collided with a merch
Group portrait of interstate members of the RAN, survivors of the HMAS Wallaroo which was sunk off the Australian coast, sixty miles (96 kilometres) west of Fremantle, Western Australia. On the night
Group portrait of the Victorian RAN survivors of the sinking of the corvette HMAS Wallaroo off the Australian coast, sixty miles (96 kilomentres) west of Fremantle, Western Australia, on the night of
Portrait of Midshipman Brian Harold Page, Royal Australian Navy, from Roseville, NSW showing some of his scars which resulted from a collision sixty miles (96 kilometres) west of Fremantle between his
Starboard side view of the corvette HMAS Wallaroo. She is armed with a 4 inch BL Mark IX gun on a CP I mounting forward and three single 20mm Oerlikon AA (anti aircraft) guns in the bridge wings and a
Informal portrait of 49 year old 8522 Able Seaman (AB) Leonard Richards, who has been 37 years in the navy, was one of the survivors from the sinking corvette HMAS Wallaroo, following a collision with
