The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An officer of HMAS Australia made this sketch of the German cruiser Karlsruhe, which was blown up accidentally on 4 November 1914 while on her way to raid Barbados. Karslruhe was a 4820 ton light cruiser and carried 12 4.1 inch guns. She was responsible for taking or sinking 16 British merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean during a three month period.
The 6670 ton Dutch Cruiser Java, which was sunk by the Japanese on 27 February 1942 during the Battle of the Java Sea while defending the Netherlands East Indies. Launched in 1925, the ship was armed
A Dutch schooner salvaged by HMAS Melbourne near Barbados. For a 16 month period between 1915 and 1916, HMAS Melbourne was engaged in alternate patrols, one around the Caribbean and the other off Lon
The Russian Navy's 6500 ton light cruiser Askold in the harbour of the Ceylon capital. She was probably escorting a troopship at the time. Not long beforehand, along with two Japanese warships and six
One of the 4 inch guns on the battle cruiser HMAS Australia. The ship originally carried eight 12 inch guns, 16 4 inch guns, four 3 pounders, five machine guns, and two 18 inch submerged torpedo tube
A harbour tug crosses the bow of the 8-inch gun cruiser HMS Exeter as she lies anchored in the congested harbour of Tanjong Priok, the port for Batavia, now Jakarta, in the first days of February, 194
HMAT Katoomba leaving the southern Italian port. The ship is painted in a disruptive camouflage pattern. This 9424 ton merchant vessel, requisitioned like many others for use as a transport, carried A
