The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The merchant ship SS Pera tied up at Hobart to take on a cargo of apples. Pera was a ship of the P and O Steam Navigation Company, London, which came under Commonwealth control during the First World War until 6 January 1917. She was one of the ships of the first convoy assembled in King George's Sound, Albany, WA, in October 1914 to transport Australian and New Zealand forces overseas. Pera later was used as a transport and was ultimately torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean on 19 October 1917.
A Wight 'Converted' two seater Seaplane in flight over two taxiing Short 184 Seaplanes. As its name implies, the Wight was converted from land-based bomber configuration, mainly by the simple expedie
HMAT Wiltshire (A18) was one of the steamships requisitioned by the Australian Government for use as a troop transport. She was one of the ships of the first convoy which assembled in King George's S
HMAT Kyarra (A55) alongside a quay. Built in 1903 for the Australian United Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, the Kyarra was requisitioned and converted into a hospital ship in November 1914. In March 1915 th
The SS Mashobra at sea. A passenger and cargo vessel which saw service as a troop transport at Gallipoli, the ship was torpedoed and sunk on 15 April 1917. From an album relating to the wartime servic
Studio portrait of Officer Engineer Richard Leonard , Merchant Marine Service, of Fremantle, WA, and his mother. From June 1915 Leonard was a crew member of the transport ship Thistleban which took t
British Merchant vessel which was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Mangalore in the Arabian Sea in July 1944. It was on route from Melbourne to Bombay via Colombo. During the First World War the ve
HMAS Ipswich picks up survivors of the cargo ship Peshewur, torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine RO-111 in the Indian Ocean, south of Madras.
