The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The destroyer HMAS Yarra alongside the oil wharf at a port on the Black Sea. In October 1918 the Yarra was released from patrol duty in the Adriatic and despatched to the Black Sea with other Allied ships in response to the Germans' acquisition of some vessels from the Russian Black Sea Fleet. She would shortly return to Plymouth in January 1919 and departed for Australia in March.
HMS Blenheim of the 5th British Destroyer Flotilla in rough seas, seen from the accompanying destroyer HMAS Torrens. After patrolling the Adriatic from a base in Brindisi, Italy, most ships of the fl
Unidentified seamen aboard the destroyer HMAS Torrens. After carrying out patrol duties in the Adriatic Sea between October 1917 and October 1918, the Torrens and the other five ships of the Australi
The destroyer HMAS Torrens alongside an oil wharf. The objects piled up centre left are probably oil barrels. Formerly a Russian port, Batum was captured by the Turks during the First World War. Upo
The light cruiser HMS Liverpool (far right, background) and the destroyer HMAS Yarra (left) at the Black Sea port. In October 1918 the six Australian destroyers finished patrolling the Adriatic Sea a
A British destroyer seen from HMAS Torrens, which, together with HMS Liverpool and HMAS Yarra, was visiting the ports of Batum and Novorossiysk on the Black Sea. Formerly a Russian port, Batum was ca
Informal group portrait of four unidentified stokers aboard the destroyer HMAS Torrens. The Torrens spent most of 1918 patrolling the Adriatic Sea; sailed eastward to investigate a possible threat fr
