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Marine Phoenix I too sailed on her in C May 1947 from Sydney to San Francisco
Started 08 November 2015, last revision 08 November 2015 Link

My great-uncle, John Cotton, was an able seaman on ss Demeterton which was intercepted and sunk by SMS Moewe in March 1917
Started 11 July 2015, last revision 11 July 2015

von Luckner...help please I am writing a monograph
Started 20 April 2015, last revision 20 April 2015 Link

re: SMS Emden crew list especially wireless operators?
Started 03 November 2013, last revision 03 November 2013

HMAS Ballarat
Started 14 October 2013, last revision 14 October 2013 Link

My late father, then a Lieutenant RNR, commanded Northern Spray in 1943
Started 14 October 2013, last revision 14 October 2013

HMAS SWAN ll
Started 27 September 2013, last revision 27 September 2013 Link

Hi from the USA
Started 27 September 2013, last revision 27 September 2013

John Eric Barker lost on the SS Northstar
Started 08 September 2013, last revision 08 September 2013 Link

Edward Francis McSweeney VX43944
Started 08 September 2013, last revision 08 September 2013

How to reach author of  SUBS DOWN UNDER - SS42
Started 08 September 2013, last revision 08 September 2013 Link

Lt Percy David Goodman lost on Sickle
Started 08 September 2013, last revision 08 September 2013

Robert Walder on the piracy patrols along the Yangzi river
Started 08 September 2013, last revision 08 September 2013 Link

SMS Emden crew list especially wireless operators?
Started 12 August 2013, last revision 03 November 2013

WW1 Trench Uncovered
Started 12 August 2013, last revision 12 August 2013 Link

U-boats to Japan with Uranium
Started 12 August 2013, last revision 12 August 2013

Captain William Joseph (Bill) Hartley 1905-1999 The Rescue Ships
Started 12 August 2013, last revision 12 August 2013 Link

Hermann Ibbeken captain/master of  Mopelia 1929
Started 12 August 2013, last revision 12 August 2013

Count von Luckner during his 1938 visit to Sydney
Started 12 August 2013, last revision 12 August 2013 Link

Michael and Ksenia Martyn and their 4 children survived sinking of Athenia
Started 23 July 2013, last revision 23 July 2013

1865 deserters from the American Confederate warship Shenandoah?
Started 23 July 2013, last revision 23 July 2013 Link

Total number of submarine losses for all countries during the WW2?
Started 23 July 2013, last revision 23 July 2013

Storey's of Liverpool, update
Started 23 July 2013, last revision 23 July 2013 Link

Justin “Jungle” Jackson lost in USS Jacksonville August 30, 1944
Started 23 July 2013, last revision 23 July 2013

David Sinclair Simpson one of the two passengers lost in the De la Salle on July 9th 1943
Started 12 June 2013, last revision 12 June 2013 Link

Seeking Sydney and Emden descendants
Started 09 June 2013, last revision 09 June 2013

Daniel D NITTI who served aboard the USS Jarvis DD-393
Started 09 June 2013, last revision 09 June 2013 Link

HMNZS Achilles
Started 09 June 2013, last revision 06 September 2014

Harry Pittaway served on both the HMAS Canberra and the HMAS Australia
Started 09 June 2013, last revision 09 June 2013 Link

David G Vowles and Anne Vowles were survivors of the Athenia
Started 09 June 2013, last revision 09 June 2013

Liberty Ship Albert B Cummins
Started 09 June 2013, last revision 09 June 2013 Link

Edgar Winter commanded USS Jacksonville Tanker WW2
Started 09 June 2013, last revision 09 June 2013

William Rodger RNVR dental officer on HMS Artifex
Started 27 May 2013, last revision 27 May 2013 Link

Action Report: Army Coastal Tanker Y-14
Started 19 May 2013, last revision 19 May 2013

Nazi Raid in Bari Harbor in 1943
Started 19 May 2013, last revision 19 May 2013 Link

War Deaths
Started 05 May 2013, last revision 05 May 2013

Who was responsible for HMT and OHMS ships during WWII?
Started 05 May 2013, last revision 05 May 2013 Link


Started 05 May 2013, last revision 05 May 2013

Eric Dixon, Third Officer, died on the raft after sinking of Rio Azul
Started 05 May 2013, last revision 05 May 2013 Link

Fredrick Thomas Pearson, Athenia Steward Prior to 2 September 1939?
Started 05 May 2013, last revision 05 May 2013

James Dixon's Diary WW1 sailor serving in HMAS Australia
Started 05 May 2013, last revision 05 May 2013 Link

Ships of the Royal Australian Navy
Started 05 May 2013, last revision 05 May 2013

3rd class fare for SS Oronsay in 1929?
Started 21 April 2013, last revision 21 April 2013 Link

My uncle, John James Minnie
Started 21 April 2013, last revision 21 April 2013

Thanks
Started 21 April 2013, last revision 21 April 2013 Link

Where can I get a MN badge?
Started 21 April 2013, last revision 21 April 2013

Y14 Coast Guard, William Cowan
Started 21 April 2013, last revision 19 May 2013 Link

Count Felix von Luckner certainly sailed in Pinmore in 1902, Jack Johns sailed on the Pinmore
Started 21 April 2013, last revision 21 April 2013

Lt. F.E. Burton R.N.V.R 1925-1995 Medals
Started 21 April 2013, last revision 21 April 2013 Link

Enquiry about the TSS Nestor
Started 11 April 2013, last revision 11 April 2013

Archibald Kenneth Smith DSM Chief Petty Officer
Started 11 April 2013, last revision 11 April 2013 Link

John Crace RN
Started 04 April 2013, last revision 04 April 2013

Photo of SS Cortes?
Started 18 March 2013, last revision 18 March 2013 Link

Gallipoli Oaks Project Committee
Started 18 March 2013, last revision 18 March 2013

Survivor of Arctic Convoy, sinking of Fort Cedar Lake
Started 18 March 2013, last revision 18 March 2013 Link

Sgt. Mach. Karel van Dijk was on the Dutch Submarine 0 19 when it hit Ladd Reef
Started 18 March 2013, last revision 18 March 2013

Ship wreck of Cataraqui 1845
Started 18 March 2013, last revision 18 March 2013 Link

FESR Navy Association Battle Honours Friday 1 March the Chief of Navy rededicated the Naval Memorial in Canberra
Started 18 March 2013, last revision 18 March 2013

Peggy McKillop, picture, women pioneers of flight
Started 03 March 2013, last revision 03 March 2013 Link

German Flag from Rabaul
Started 03 March 2013, last revision 03 March 2013

Gnr FW Sutton, HMS Voltaire
Started 03 March 2013, last revision 03 March 2013 Link

Matthew Ingram was on the H.M Trawler Ellesmere which was went down on the 24th Feb 1945
Started 03 March 2013, last revision 03 March 2013

Ship named Platypus circa 1878?
Started 03 March 2013, last revision 03 March 2013 Link

J A P Blackburn, HMS Voltaire
Started 17 February 2013, last revision 17 February 2013

Bernard Eades mentioned in the book Sailors In Cages
Started 17 February 2013, last revision 17 February 2013 Link

HMS Pink certainly played her part in the defence of Convoy ONS 5
Started 17 February 2013, last revision 17 February 2013

Westburn, a British steamship WW1
Started 17 February 2013, last revision 17 February 2013 Link

What is a Yachtie's Commission?

Started 17 February 2013, last revision 17 February 2013

Daniel Vernal who died on the SS Saint Barchan in 1918
Started 17 February 2013, last revision 17 February 2013 Link

Robert Goodall travelled to Canada in the Athenia, Donaldson Brothers Ltd.circa 1880?
Started 17 February 2013, last revision 17 February 2013

George Russell survived wreck of Royal Charter
Started 13 February 2013, last revision 13 February 2013 Link

Called up early as in the Reserve, before start of WW2 on HMS Boadicea
Started 13 February 2013, last revision 13 February 2013

Empire Gold photos
Started 13 February 2013, last revision 13 February 2013 Link

Canberra Radar
Started 04 February 2013, last revision 04 February 2013

Grandfather lost his life in WW1 when HMS Louvain p was torpedoed by the German UC22 submarine
Started 04 February 2013, last revision 04 February 2013 Link

Can readers help with book research? "Former Shore Establishments of the Royal Australian Navy"
Started 04 February 2013, last revision 04 February 2013


Started 27 January 2013, last revision 27 January 2013 Link

About Convoy UGS-40
Started 27 January 2013, last revision 06 September 2014

Prayer Book Scans, Father in law was Canteen Manager with NAAFI on HMS Voltaire, POW in Germany
Started 27 January 2013, last revision 27 January 2013 Link

In defence of HMAS Canberra's crew
Started 27 January 2013, last revision 27 January 2013

IJN Destroyers recues of  Pope / Encounter survivors
Started 27 January 2013, last revision 27 January 2013 Link

Flight Lieutenant William Stutt
Started 19 January 2013, last revision 19 January 2013

Albert Ransome, my father, HMS Voltaire
Started 19 January 2013, last revision 19 January 2013 Link

Edmond Victor Joyce Ordnance Articifer 4th Class, HMAS Canberra killed, Battle of Savo Island
Started 19 January 2013, last revision 19 January 2013

Hudson Radio operator Eric Geddes Mac on TV, Battle of Savo Island
Started 19 January 2013, last revision 19 January 2013 Link

Maheno's launch - hospital ship Maheno at Gallipoli
Started 19 January 2013, last revision 19 January 2013

George Bennetts was one of the casualties HMS E47
Started 19 January 2013, last revision 03 March 2013 Link

Top 5 picks to read on Naval Battles of Guadalcanal?
Started 14 January 2013, last revision 14 January 2013

SS Ceramic Collision with SS Testbank
Started 13 January 2013, last revision 13 January 2013 Link

Eric Greenleaf  An ex Royal Marine was aboard the Cumberland from 1939/42
Started 13 January 2013, last revision 13 January 2013

Atlantic Star
Started 13 January 2013, last revision 13 January 2013 Link

Camperdown and Victoria Collision
Started 13 January 2013, last revision 13 January 2013

Source: "Famous Maritime Ships and Their Freight Cargo"
Started 13 January 2013, last revision 14 January 2013 Link

Joseph Lee, did he desert US Navy's Great White Fleet?
Started 30 December 2012, last revision 30 December 2012

Standford A Lenz served on USS Missouri?
Started 30 December 2012, last revision 30 December 2012 Link

Pacific star - two stars completely different
Started 29 December 2012, last revision 29 December 2012

Charles McKenzie from Aberdeen sailed on the SS New York
Started 08 December 2012, last revision 08 December 2012 Link

William Bligh's epic voyage in an open boat in 1789
Started 08 December 2012, last revision 08 December 2012

Were Bruce Cutler and to-be-wife Annie Waller were destined to board SS Athenia?
Started 08 December 2012, last revision 08 December 2012 Link

Hannah Baird and the sinking of SS Athenia
Started 25 November 2012, last revision 25 November 2012

16mm film footage of SS Voltaire 2
Started 25 November 2012, last revision 13 February 2013 Link

HMS Voltaire, Stanley J. Oliver, poignant letter to his mother from Bill Ransome
Started 25 November 2012, last revision 13 January 2013

Liberty ship Roger B Taney
Started 25 November 2012, last revision 25 November 2012 Link

Family traveled in Athenia from Scotland to Canada in 1925
Started 25 November 2012, last revision 25 November 2012

Was Mary Rushton a passenger on Athenia?
Started 25 November 2012, last revision 25 November 2012 Link

Richard Oxbym in the ONS5 convoy escort, a British ordinary seaman in his first ship, the corvette Snowflake
Started 19 November 2012, last revision 19 November 2012

Phillip Roy Skeats, HMS Voltaire
Started 19 November 2012, last revision 19 November 2012 Link

Was Eastlea sunk by U-48 or U-106?
Started 18 November 2012, last revision 19 November 2012

Repair ships WW2 Royal Navy, HMS Artifex
Started 07 November 2012, last revision 07 November 2012 Link

Herbert Currell, SS North Britain
Started 07 November 2012, last revision 07 November 2012

Finnish TORNATOR
Started 06 November 2012, last revision 06 November 2012 Link

Reginald Douglas Stevenson HMS Boadicia
Started 06 November 2012, last revision 06 November 2012

Hannah Baird. Voici un article publié dans le Québec Hebdo.
Started 06 November 2012, last revision 06 September 2014 Link

Royal Charter documentary
Started 06 November 2012, last revision 06 November 2012

1st Lieutenant on HMS Latimer on the laying of PLUTO
Started 26 October 2012, last revision 26 October 2012 Link

Florence Barrett - Athenia
Started 26 October 2012, last revision 26 October 2012

Chaddy "Downyflake Doughnut shop at Chadstone"
Started 21 October 2012, last revision 21 October 2012 Link

Replica of HMAS Alexander
Started 21 October 2012, last revision 21 October 2012

New book: Athenia Torpedoed
Started 21 October 2012, last revision 21 October 2012 Link

HMS Powerful or HMS Terrible. 4 funnel Cressy Class cruisers in the RN
Started 21 October 2012, last revision 21 October 2012

Athenia Survivor Mary McLeod
Started 14 October 2012, last revision 14 October 2012 Link

Wreck of U 767
Started 11 October 2012, last revision 11 October 2012

Navy pauses to remember the loss of HMA Submarine AE1, lost 14 September 1914
Started 30 September 2012, last revision 30 September 2012 Link

Did Felix von Luckner sail on the Yacht by the name of Elva, which was possibly called Independence?
Started 30 September 2012, last revision 30 September 2012

von Luckner Dagger
Started 30 September 2012, last revision 30 September 2012 Link

The Malta Story ARH Barton
Started 30 September 2012, last revision 06 November 2012

Stoker Arthur Draper served on the
submarine HMS Porpoise

Started 30 September 2012, last revision 30 September 2012 Link

Hospial Ship St David c1917
Started 30 September 2012, last revision 30 September 2012

Moresby: John and Fairfax
Started 30 September 2012, last revision 30 December 2012 Link

Passenger list the ill fated Royal Charter
Started 30 September 2012, last revision 30 September 2012


Started 30 September 2012, last revision 30 September 2012 Link

Hannah Baird, first Canadian casulaty of WW II
Started 30 September 2012, last revision 30 September 2012

RMS ORAMA 1 or ORAMA II? Correction
Started 22 September 2012, last revision 22 September 2012 Link

Frank Ball aboard the SS Oronsay when she was torpedoed in October 1942
Started 09 September 2012, last revision 09 September 2012

1939 British Pathe newsreel about survivors of the Athenia sinking, including 2 eyewitness accounts
Started 04 September 2012, last revision 04 September 2012 Link

Rubbing or a closeup photo of our uncle Stanford A Lenz's name on the memorial monument of the USS Missouri?
Started 04 September 2012, last revision 04 September 2012

Contact info re John Sidney Lazaru, lost in S.S. City of Benares
Started 04 September 2012, last revision 04 September 2012 Link

Mac McLeod author of "Malta Diary"
Started 02 September 2012, last revision 02 September 2012

Richard Alun Hugh Jones was chief officer on the SS Boston. Tony Slevin's account "Convoy RB 1 and Southland"
Started 02 September 2012, last revision 02 September 2012 Link

German Raiders of the South Seas by Robin Bromby now on Kindle
Started 02 September 2012, last revision 02 September 2012

Gnr F W Sutton RN Service Number 188557 HMS Volitaire?
Started 27 August 2012, last revision 02 September 2012 Link

WWI Australians in Film
Started 27 August 2012, last revision 27 August 2012

Margaret Florence Heap, Athenia survivor transported to Canada on the City of Flint?
Started 23 August 2012, last revision 20 January 2013 Link

Marine Stanley Williams of the Prince of Wales.
Started 23 August 2012, last revision 23 August 2012

German raider Mowe
Started 12 August 2012, last revision 12 August 2012 Link

Great Grand Mother worked on the SS Athenia
Started 11 August 2012, last revision 11 August 2012

William Peter Wilson served in the Navy during WW II
Started 11 August 2012, last revision 11 August 2012 Link

U.S. Navy Lt. Matthew Maury
Started 11 August 2012, last revision 12 August 2012

USS Ellet Video
Started 11 August 2012, last revision 11 August 2012 Link

Huw Evans was also on the Oronsay
Started 11 August 2012, last revision 11 August 2012


Started 03 August 2012, last revision 03 August 2012 Link

Photo of HMAS Canberra 1
Started 03 August 2012, last revision 03 August 2012

Hannah Baird Information/Sinking of the Athenia
Started 18 July 2012, last revision 18 July 2012 Link

Squadron 126 leader ARH Barton - Tony or Killer
Started 16 July 2012, last revision 30 September 2012

German Raider GREIF aka GRIEF` and cricket
Started 16 July 2012, last revision 16 July 2012 Link

Seawomen standing by for war, women at sea in WW1 and WW2?
Started 12 July 2012, last revision 12 July 2012

70th anniversary HMAS Canberra? LS Frank Robert Salamon who was KIA on HMAS Canberra
Started 09 July 2012, last revision 09 July 2012 Link

Father was an ASDIC operator on the Sickle when she was lost in June 1944
Started 09 July 2012, last revision 09 July 2012

Who painted the picture of Graf von Luckner's WW1 raider the Seeadler?
Started 09 July 2012, last revision 09 July 2012 Link

Count von Luckner - 5 trees in Israel
Started 21 May 2012, last revision 21 May 2012

Painting of SS Valdemossa rescuing children from SS Volendam in Aug 1940 after being torpedoed by U-60
Started 21 May 2012, last revision 21 May 2012 Link

HMS SICKLE - sole survivor was RICHARD BLAKE
Started 21 May 2012, last revision 21 May 2012

Mary (Fraser) Donald, Heather (Donald) Watts survived sinking of Athenia
Started 20 May 2012, last revision 21 May 2012 Link

HECTOR JOHN MCKENZIE Stoker PettyOfficer on Escort when she was on the rescue of ATHENIA survivors
Started 20 May 2012, last revision 20 May 2012

Hannah Baird was the first Canadian casulaty WW II
Started 20 May 2012, last revision 20 May 2012 Link

DESMOND JOHN KELLY  HMAS Platypus
Started 20 May 2012, last revision 20 May 2012

Stanley Williams, Marine, survived the sinking of Prince of Wales but died on 16th Feb 1942, presumably as a prisoner of war.
Started 20 May 2012, last revision 23 August 2012 Link

Claude Neville Wright, Petty Officer Sailmaker, lost on Curaco
Started 20 May 2012, last revision 20 May 2012

Stoker James Thornton and friends also served on the Cumberland
Started 20 May 2012, last revision 20 May 2012 Link

Wilhemina Greer and Sylvia ( Greer ) Love survived sinking for Athenia
Started 20 May 2012, last revision 20 May 2012

Immergrated here on the Oronsay in 1926, passenger list?
Started 20 May 2012, last revision 20 May 2012 Link

Served in HMHS Vita during at the Hermes rescue
Started 15 May 2012, last revision 15 May 2012

Did William Richard Cook sail in H.M.S. Curacoa?
Started 15 May 2012, last revision 15 May 2012 Link

Gun Boats - China Station
Started 10 May 2012, last revision 10 May 2012

US convoys (1-10) which carried troops from Australia and New Zealand in 1940 and 1941, particularly interested in US3
Started 10 May 2012, last revision 10 May 2012 Link

HMAS PIRIE's BELL
Started 10 May 2012, last revision 10 May 2012

AE2 sunk near Dardanelles
Started 02 May 2012, last revision 02 May 2012 Link

Exceptional Naval Website!
Started 28 April 2012, last revision 28 April 2012

Map of Mediteranian
Started 28 April 2012, last revision 28 April 2012 Link

Soverign of the Seas picture
Started 28 April 2012, last revision 28 April 2012

AMRA but bluffed von Luckner into believing that they did in fact carry a gun?
Started 28 April 2012, last revision 28 April 2012 Link

Danes defeated the Austrian Navy in 1864
Started 28 April 2012, last revision 28 April 2012

Chester A Lemon VK4CCC Thursday Island
Started 26 April 2012, last revision 02 May 2012 Link

ALBERT BUTTERFIELD
Started 26 April 2012, last revision 14 May 2012

My father served as first radio officer on the Oronsay when it was torpedoed in 1942
Started 22 April 2012, last revision 22 April 2012 Link

Help with watercolour by John Allcot dated 1930 showing a 3 masted ship called Dumfrieshire?
Started 22 April 2012, last revision 22 April 2012

Thomas Hutton, Fireman was on the SS Drina that sank
Started 22 April 2012, last revision 22 April 2012 Link

Charles Hughes aged 18 died on the submarine HMS Porpoise
Started 22 April 2012, last revision 22 April 2012

Timothy Emmett Madden who I believe was a sailor who was in the ship Roger B Taney
Started 22 April 2012, last revision 22 April 2012 Link

James Firth lost in Submarine Vandal 24/2/1943
Started 22 April 2012, last revision 22 April 2012

Arthur Donaldson Davies corrections
Started 22 April 2012, last revision 22 April 2012 Link

Help finding individual photographs of both Canberra and Shropshire men? eulogy for George Wellington
Started 22 April 2012, last revision 22 April 2012

Athenia menus
Started 22 April 2012, last revision 22 April 2012 Link

Father was on Vita when they picked up survivors from the sunken Hermes
Started 22 April 2012, last revision 05 May 2012

Oil painting of the Athenia painted just before her fateful trip
Started 22 April 2012, last revision 22 April 2012 Link


Started 22 April 2012, last revision 22 April 2012


Started 22 April 2012, last revision 22 April 2012 Link

"Ruth" Letter; Athenia Survivor
Started 15 April 2012, last revision 01 April 2012

Admiral Crace, Battle of the Coral Sea
Started 26 March 2012, last revision 26 March 2012 Link

Walter [Wally] Walker  served in Hospital ship Vita
Started 26 March 2012, last revision 12 April 2012

Marianne Osterman (Marianne F Kaye) Athenia Survivor
Started 10 March 2012, last revision 10 March 2012 Link

70th Anniversary of the Fall of Singapore to the Japanese
Started 18 February 2012, last revision 18 February 2012

Crossing the Pacific on the Marine Phoenix probably around mid 1947
Started 18 February 2012, last revision 18 February 2012 Link

Frank Armstrong HARGREAVES came to Qld (from UK) in 1892 on board the Jelunga
Started 18 February 2012, last revision 18 February 2012

Cornucopia of interesting links
Started 13 February 2012, last revision 13 February 2012 Link

Falklands Is. (Islas Malvinas) history update
Started 13 February 2012, last revision 13 February 2012

20th Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire, RMS Oronsay 1925/1926
Started 13 February 2012, last revision 13 February 2012 Link

Grave in Vernier with name of Felix Count Luckner Nikolaus Felix Count of Luckner
Started 13 February 2012, last revision 13 February 2012

Uncles death on the army tanker Y-14 during the Phillipines battle in December 1944?
Started 13 February 2012, last revision 19 May 2013 Link

Image of HMHS Asturias
Started 12 February 2012, last revision 02 May 2012

William Edward Smith left Sydney in the Amsterdam
Started 06 February 2012, last revision 06 February 2012 Link

Rhoda Thomas survived sinking of the Athenian and left our family with a detailed account
Started 28 January 2012, last revision 02 March 2012

Leonard Thomas, an LTO on HMAS SHROPSHIRE
Started 27 January 2012, last revision 27 January 2012 Link

Shipwrecks - Townsville
Started 27 January 2012, last revision 27 January 2012

William Patrick Littleton?
Started 27 January 2012, last revision 27 January 2012 Link

Was there ever a book written about Archangel?
Started 27 January 2012, last revision 27 January 2012

Submarine HMS Sickle crew photos/memorabilia
Started 27 January 2012, last revision 27 January 2012 Link

Cammel Laird shipbuilders
Started 27 January 2012, last revision 27 January 2012

Survivors of Empire Dawn are not named
Started 21 January 2012, last revision 21 January 2012 Link

Information needed on Borhnholm ship
Started 20 January 2012, last revision 21 January 2012

Valve for the delivery pipe to the pumping stations for PLUTO on the Isle of Wight
Started 20 January 2012, last revision 20 January 2012 Link

John Murray Rowett served on the HMAS Kalgoorlie in WW2
Started 09 January 2012, last revision 09 January 2012

Cpt HK Taylor, served at Garden Island with Bob Quinn who wrote about Welfreighter mini-subs
Started 30 December 2011, last revision 30 January 2011 Link

Picture of the crew of the Hospital Ship Worthing
Started 19 December 2011, last revision 19 December 2011

Bell inscribed 'Graf Spee' and '1939'
Started 19 December 2011, last revision 19 December 2011 Link

British Hospital ship with the name Warilda, and torpedoed and sunk on 03-08-1918
Started 19 December 2011, last revision 19 December 2011

Saw the Surcouf in Halifax in 1941
Started 06 December 2011, last revision 06 December 2011 Link

HMS Mourne, picture
Started 06 December 2011, last revision 06 December 2011

HMS TAY Convoy ONS 5
Started 06 December 2011, last revision 06 December 2011 Link

H.M.S. "ECLIPSE" 1st December 1918 No. 6. Memorandum sinking of S.S. "GALWAY CASTLE, "
Started 27 November 2011, last revision 27 November 2011

Athenia survivor, Jessie Graham from Glasgow
Started 27 November 2011, last revision 27 November 2011 Link

Udo Heilmann, U-97
Started 27 November 2011, last revision 27 November 2011

Matthew Gray
Started 27 November 2011, last revision 27 November 2011 Link

The sinking of cruiser HMAS Sydney by disguised German raider Kormoran by David Kennedy
Started 20 November 2011, last revision 28 November 2011

Len Martin died during the attack at Savo Island
Started 20 November 2011, last revision 20 November 2011 Link

Hello from Ward
Started 20 November 2011, last revision 20 November 2011

Harry (Henry) Cansdale who went down with his ship, the SS Empire Gold
Started 13 November 2011, last revision 13 November 2011 Link

Congratulations for the Pride of Australia Medal
Started 13 November 2011, last revision 13 November 2011

Any research regarding WW II wrecks off of El Alamein?
Started 13 November 2011, last revision 13 November 2011 Link

Either Hazel or May Toon survived the sinking of Ahenia
Started 13 November 2011, last revision 13 November 2011

Sidney Staines was a stoker onboard HMS Cumberland WW2
Started 13 November 2011, last revision 13 November 2011 Link

Was Henry Potter, aka Harry, one of the survivors of HMA Culver?
Started 13 November 2011, last revision 13 November 2011

Derek A. Lee - HMS Sardonyx
Started 13 November 2011, last revision 13 November 2011 Link

Grandfather merchant navy 1917 SS Seang Bee
Started 13 November 2011, last revision 13 November 2011

I do not think that the British had broken the German Code that was used to control their Armed Merchant Raiders
Started 13 November 2011, last revision 13 November 2011 Link

WW1 ship St. David?
Started 13 November 2011, last revision 13 November 2011

HMAS Voyager Model by Ken Taylor ended up at Cockatoo Island
Started 04 November 2011, last revision 04 November 2011 Link

Correction: Fate of von Luckner's Mopelia
Started 04 November 2011, last revision 04 November 2011

Inaugural bells, commissioned for the launching of the Graf Spree?
Started 04 November 2011, last revision 04 November 2011 Link

Were Lydia Pemberton and Bertha Pemberton Survivors on the Athenia survivor list?
Started 04 November 2011, last revision 04 November 2011

Surcouf Article
Started 04 November 2011, last revision 04 November 2011 Link

WW1 Hospital Ship PLASSY
Started 04 November 2011, last revision 04 November 2011

Wireless Stations Falkland Islands
Started 21 October 2011, last revision 21 October 2011 Link

Information on 4 ton freighter called Wiborg? Operation Hannibal during the beginning of February of 1945?
Started 21 October 2011, last revision 04 November 2011

Info on John Rowe, Master’s Mate of HMS Adventure, Captain Cook’s second voyage?
Started 21 October 2011, last revision 21 October 2011 Link

Found what I believe to be a figurehead of a boat
Started 20 October 2011, last revision 20 October 2011

Figureheads for IPFW Rhinehart Music Center's Fabulous FAME Flyer
Started 20 October 2011, last revision 20 October 2011 Link

Terraces built over the Loess plateau
Started 20 October 2011, last revision 20 October 2011

Lt Richard John Wood (Jacky), killed in H.M.S. Voltaire?
Started 20 October 2011, last revision 21 October 2011 Link

Another Graf Spee bell
Started 20 October 2011, last revision 20 October 2011

Herbert Schofiel survivor on the SS Empire Gold, torpedoed in the Atlantic in WW2
Started 13 October 2011, last revision 13 October 2011 Link

Father was a private in the 23rd battalion 2ndNZEF
Started 13 October 2011, last revision 06 September 2014

Dan Snow diving on Empire Heritage (a book for a TV series)
Started 26 September 2011, last revision 26 September 2011 Link

Athenia pillow
Started 11 September 2011, last revision 11 September 2011

Father served on the Philante
Started 11 September 2011, last revision 11 September 2011 Link

Empire Heritage
Started 11 September 2011, last revision 11 September 2011

The Atlantic Ocean a poem by Mackenzie Gregory
Started 11 September 2011, last revision 11 September 2011 Link

SS Ceramic
Started 11 September 2011, last revision 11 September 2011

THE LORD AUSTIN FROM PETER DAVEY
Started 11 September 2011, last revision 15 September 2011 Link

Robert Cozens served on the HMAS Vengance 27 October to 3 December 1954, RAN logs?
Started 28 August 2011, last revision 28 August 2011

Lyndon Johnson's military service
Started 28 August 2011, last revision 28 August 2011 Link

Josephine Lehmann, one of Lowell Thomas' ghostwriters, cruised with von Luckner during summer 1930
Started 25 August 2011, last revision 25 August 2011

Capt. Peter Arthur and the City of Benares rescue
Started 25 August 2011, last revision 25 August 2011 Link

Did Felix Von Luckner sail in the Barque, Pinmore?
Started 25 August 2011, last revision 25 August 2011

Celebrating Australian women pilots from Rosemary Arnold
Started 20 August 2011, last revision 20 August 2011 Link

New book project on the Battle of Savo Island
Started 20 August 2011, last revision 06 September 2014

Asbestos exposure during service in the armed forces
Started 07 August 2011, last revision 07 August 2011 Link

Plans for a WW2 Cam Skip
Started 29 July 2011, last revision 29 July 2011

Mother was engaged to someone on the Hermes
Started 29 July 2011, last revision 29 July 2011 Link

SS Captain Cook brought immigrants to New Zealand 1952 to 1960
Started 29 July 2011, last revision 29 July 2011

David Thomson USN was born in Scotland in 1834
Started 19 July 2011, last revision 19 July 2011 Link

Image of US President Herbert Hoover
Started 19 July 2011, last revision 19 July 2011

Norman Maybrick Ellison HMS Cornwall WW1
Started 18 July 2011, last revision 18 July 2011 Link

Lawrence George Pieretti lost on MV Nottingham
Started 18 July 2011, last revision 18 July 2011

Picture taken from an airplane of Pearl Harbor on 7th of December 1941
Started 18 July 2011, last revision 19 July 2011 Link

Can you tell me the Scott number of the Chiang Kai Shek 1943 Leader of China stamp?
Started 27 June 2011, last revision 27 June 2011

VI Corps Combat Engineers of WWII
Started 26 June 2011, last revision 26 June 2011 Link

My mother sailed to Canada on the Rangitata
Started 26 June 2011, last revision 26 June 2011

Ship Britannia 1893
Started 26 June 2011, last revision 26 June 2011 Link

WWII Veteran found under house. (a FOLBOAT)
Started 26 June 2011, last revision 26 June 2011

Eric Robbins servied with U-boat killer HMT Le Tiger
Started 26 June 2011, last revision 06 September 2014 Link

Identify a ship's picture at Gem Pier at Williamstown?
Started 26 June 2011, last revision 26 June 2011

Was Eric Lawrence GWilliam on board HMAS Canberra at the time of her sinking?
Started 26 June 2011, last revision 26 June 2011 Link

James Hennessey - 87th Infantry Div, 345th, Co E
Started 26 June 2011, last revision 26 June 2011

Photos of the Ships Badges at Snapper Island Museum?
Started 26 June 2011, last revision 26 June 2011 Link

Shouldn't this be Fegan rather than Kennedy (who was captain of the Rawlpindi)?
Started 20 June 2011, last revision 20 June 2011

Cyril Bannister?
Started 20 June 2011, last revision 20 June 2011 Link

Eric M. Adams, Steward, HMAS Shropshire
Started 20 June 2011, last revision 06 September 2014

Researching my late father's history. He was in the Royal Navy and served on
the Philante in 1940

Started 14 June 2011, last revision 14 June 2011 Link

William Turner was lost in SS RamiIlles 1941 sinking by U-97
Started 03 June 2011, last revision 03 June 2011

Crew manifests for HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure
Started 03 June 2011, last revision 03 June 2011 Link

Fate of von Luckner's Mopelia
Started 31 May 2011, last revision 04 November 2011

Dwight F. Zeller, the chaplain who did the baptism from Canberra's bell
Started 22 May 2011, last revision 22 May 2011 Link

Russel Murray Johnstone, A/lg Sea
Started 14 May 2011, last revision 22 May 2011

History behind placing a coin in the keel
Started 14 May 2011, last revision 22 May 2011 Link

Reindert Spyker was killed on the De Ruyter
Started 09 May 2011, last revision 09 May 2011

Athenia Survivor: Mrs. Kate Williams of Victoria, BC - deceased
Started 06 May 2011, last revision 02 September 2012 Link

Happy Anzac Day
Started 25 April 2011, last revision 25 April 2011

HMS President III was not a seagoing ship but a Shore Establishment
Started 25 April 2011, last revision 25 April 2011 Link

Information about S.S. Palm or S.S. Bata?
Started 20 April 2011, last revision 20 April 2011

Bell I.C. and H. Gamst in 1816, inscription of " IND: PAQUET"?
Started 20 April 2011, last revision 20 April 2011 Link

Family tree of General Fedor Von Bock?
Started 20 April 2011, last revision 20 April 2011

Alice & Kathleen Michie survivied sinking of Athenia
Started 08 April 2011, last revision 08 April 2011 Link

Alber Baker sailed on the Voltaire (and Pictures of Funeral at Sea)
Started 08 April 2011, last revision 08 April 2011

Family Kowalski - 2010 letters from Eugeniusz Kowalaski and Robert Akerstrom
Started 08 April 2011, last revision 08 April 2011 Link

Capt. R B Hesketh, MC was involved in the capture of Admiral Doenitz and maybe his Mercedes
Started 03 April 2011, last revision 03 April 2011

HMS Campbell and it's Battle Honour "Arctic 1942"
Started 03 April 2011, last revision 03 April 2011 Link

Kirill Nõu He disappeared into the Pacific on Sept 9, 1947 from Marine Phoenix
Started 03 April 2011, last revision 03 April 2011

Volendam, some three ships bore that name
Started 03 April 2011, last revision 03 April 2011 Link

Story on Barbara Wilson's Athenian ordeal
Started 03 April 2011, last revision 03 April 2011

Ship's logs / wartime diaries of these  M.V. Aorangi & HMAS Nepal?
Started 01 April 2011, last revision 19 December 2011 Link

Serving Sir Anthony Eden on board RMS Rangitata in 1957
Started 01 April 2011, last revision 13 January 2013

Edward Lancaster (known as Scotty), on the Voltaire when it was sunk
Started 01 April 2011, last revision 03 March 2013 Link

French Submarine Surcouf and the Thompson Lykes
Started 01 April 2011, last revision 09 June 2013

Mac and Denise were booked on Flight 77 interview for documentary film for TLC/Discovery
Started 01 April 2011, last revision 05 May 2013 Link

Picture of Cataraqui?
Started 01 April 2011, last revision 01 April 2011

Air Vice Marshal Sydney Osborne BUFTON
Started 01 April 2011, last revision 01 April 2011 Link

Cataraqui picture
Started 01 April 2011, last revision 01 April 2011

John Johnston Gibson Thomson's picture in uniform?
Started 01 April 2011, last revision 08 April 2011 Link

Painting of 'The Pass of the Balhama'
Started 01 April 2011, last revision 27 January 2013

Lord Austin picture
Started 23 March 2011, last revision 23 March 2011 Link

Auxiliary Carier, HMS Dasher

 


Started 23 March 2011, last revision 23 March 2011

Von Luckner in Western Australia?
Started 23 March 2011, last revision 23 March 2011 Link

von Manstein, one of the greatest army commanders of all time?
Started 23 March 2011, last revision 23 March 2011

G'day from Brussels
Started 23 March 2011, last revision 23 March 2011 Link

Information regarding the ship Lancastria pre 1940?
Started 23 March 2011, last revision 23 March 2011

U.S.S. Griffin AS13 was the ship that escorted the six S. Boats to Brisbane
Started 23 March 2011, last revision 23 March 2011 Link

Radio Officer of the Athenia when Lemp torpedoed her in September 1939?
Started 19 March 2011, last revision 20 March 2011

Ships Nostalgia video
Started 19 March 2011, last revision 19 March 2011 Link

HMS Lively and her CO, Lieutenant-Commander William Hussey
Started 17 March 2011, last revision 17 March 2011

Tom Smith RANR (S), Executive Officer on the HMAS Wollongong when the Japanese army took Singapore, 52 years at sea
Started 17 March 2011, last revision 17 March 2011 Link

Noel Williams, served as Stoker, Petty Officer, aboard the HMAS Australia between 14/2/1940 -- 31/12/45
Started 17 March 2011, last revision 17 March 2011

Chart: Battle of Savo Island
Started 17 March 2011, last revision 17 March 2011 Link

HMAS Sydney II ex HMS Phaeton
Started 17 March 2011, last revision 17 March 2011

Barbara Rodman Wilson, Athenia survivor
Started 17 March 2011, last revision 17 March 2011 Link

Not able to find a voyage by Somersetshire from India to UK just before the start of WW2
Started 13 March 2011, last revision 13 March 2011

Lucy Marston, lost on Athenia, her daughter Aileen Scott Philipsen survived
Started 13 March 2011, last revision 30 October 2012 Link

Was "London Depot" (1913) actually a ship?
Started 13 March 2011, last revision 13 March 2011

Thomas William Huges serve on SS Wear?
Started 13 March 2011, last revision 13 March 2011 Link

Peter McLaughlin Simpson was a cook in the SS Athenia, pre 1939
Started 06 March 2011, last revision 06 March 2011

Operated X-Craft 4 man submarines (Mk. 5 )
Started 06 March 2011, last revision 06 March 2011 Link

Auxiliary Minesweepers
Started 06 March 2011, last revision 06 March 2011

RAN destroyer lost off Victoria in WW2?
Started 06 March 2011, last revision 06 March 2011 Link

Unknown sailor on Christmas island be linked to any of the crew-families of the Sydney
Started 06 March 2011, last revision 06 March 2011

Shropshire burial at sea of Arthur Frederick Duke account by Jack Dobson Sellars
Started 26 February 2011, last revision 26 February 2011 Link

Sinking of SS Siagon, account by C.L. Wiles, R.A.
Started 26 February 2011, last revision 26 February 2011

Genius of Navigation Statue, Toulon
Started 19 February 2011, last revision 19 February 2011 Link

THE PACIFIC WAR: Balikpapan, July 1, 1945 - another view of the L.C.V.P. Collection of Alan Meade, RAN 1943-1946

 


Started 19 February 2011, last revision 19 February 2011

Captain George Gibb of Loch Ard
Started 02 February 2011, last revision 02 February 2011 Link

Lt. John Francis Fairbanks, Jr., USNA class of 1932, was the XO of the Edsall when it was attacked and sunk on March 1, 1942
Started 02 February 2011, last revision 02 February 2011

Tracing Gregory family history
Started 01 February 2011, last revision 01 February 2011 Link

George Ebenezer Knight, HS "Anglia" Geoffs Search Engine
Started 01 February 2011, last revision 01 February 2011

Reginald Douglas Stevenson and Cecil C.Baines both lost with HMS. BOADICIA on the 13/6/1944
Started 01 February 2011, last revision 01 February 2011 Link

Was Hannah Baird was the first Canadian (and merchant mariner) killed as a result of enemy action in WWII?
Started 01 February 2011, last revision 01 February 2011

Charles Leslie Gough, one of the crew of a flying boat rescued by HMAS Australia
Started 30 January 2011, last revision 01 February 2011 Link

Perilous Waters video from WW2
Started 30 January 2011, last revision 30 January 2011


Started 30 January 2011, last revision 30 January 2011 Link

Congratulations on the award of the Shrine of Remembrance Medal
Started 30 January 2011, last revision 30 January 2011

Subsidiary of HMS Excellent?
Started 23 January 2011, last revision 23 January 2011 Link

HMS Culver,Gould and Mourne survivors
Started 23 January 2011, last revision 23 January 2011

George Ebenezer Knight, HS "Anglia" sunk by mine 17/11/1915 & the "Geoff Search Engine"
Started 23 January 2011, last revision 23 January 2011 Link

Cufflink box, TSS Nestor
Started 16 January 2011, last revision 16 January 2011

Signal LETTERS for the 1950 built Shaw Savill ship Suevic
Started 16 January 2011, last revision 16 January 2011 Link

HMS Rame Head
Started 11 January 2011, last revision 11 January 2011

Christian August Krohne, told me he sailed with Graf von Luckner
Started 11 January 2011, last revision 12 January 2011 Link

Athol Johnstone in the Menelaus was chased by the Germain raider Michel
Started 12 December 2010, last revision 12 December 2010

Story about HMAS Sydney is one of those myths of WW2?
Started 12 December 2010, last revision 12 December 2010 Link

61 strong contingent of South African Air Force aboard Rangitata when it left Cape Town on the 2nd of September 1943
Started 12 December 2010, last revision 12 December 2010

US Subs Down Under by David Jones and Peter Nunan

 


Started 01 December 2010, last revision 01 December 2010 Link

Charles (Charlie) Allison who was apparently a young officer on the QE 2 in the early 1970's?
Started 01 December 2010, last revision 01 December 2010

Another Graf Spee commemorative bell
Started 30 November 2010, last revision 30 November 2010 Link

New book: Fletcher, Task Force Commander The early years of WW2 in the Pacific. by James Bauer
Started 30 November 2010, last revision 30 November 2010

Allen Waters who served at Huon during WW2
Started 30 November 2010, last revision 30 November 2010 Link

Raymond (Ben) Currie on Afric Star which was sunk in the south Atlantic in 1941
Started 30 November 2010, last revision 30 November 2010

Information about Liberty ship Roger B Taney
Started 28 November 2010, last revision 28 November 2010 Link

Sub Lt A.E.Howell
Started 28 November 2010, last revision 30 November 2010

Congratulation on Shrine of Remembrance Medal and Diving on Thustlegorm
Started 28 November 2010, last revision 28 November 2010 Link

Ships from under the Southern Cross blog
Started 23 November 2010, last revision 23 November 2010

Post war minesweeping off Cairns?
Started 23 November 2010, last revision 23 November 2010 Link

Graf-Spee bell
Started 20 November 2010, last revision 20 November 2010

HMHS Somersetshire, Hospital Ship
Started 20 November 2010, last revision 20 November 2010 Link

John or Hugh Williams may have deserted his ship Lobo in Brisbane on 26 July 1886 and spent the rest of his life in Australia
Started 20 November 2010, last revision 20 November 2010

WWII Lend-Lease: Bantam Jeeps sent to Russia
Started 20 November 2010, last revision 20 November 2010 Link

Escape via a Torpedo Tube?
Started 20 November 2010, last revision 20 November 2010

When a boat is approaching a warship it is hailed from its deck with the word AHOY
Started 20 November 2010, last revision 23 November 2010 Link

Destroyer History — Port Moresby
Started 20 November 2010, last revision 20 November 2010

Potential Loss of Dartmouth Naval College
Started 07 November 2010, last revision 09 November 2010 Link

LESLIE CHARLES WILLIAM MACKERLIE Petty Officer HMAS Australia
Started 06 November 2010, last revision 06 November 2010

Ill Fated USS Block Island Carrier and history class
Started 06 November 2010, last revision 06 November 2010 Link

Sea Devil book by Lowell Thomas signed by von Luckner
Started 06 November 2010, last revision 06 November 2010

HMS Edinburgh
Started 06 November 2010, last revision 23 November 2010 Link

Cruiser, The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and her Crew
Started 06 November 2010, last revision 06 November 2010

Spitfire over the Forth Bridge
Started 31 October 2010, last revision 31 October 2010 Link

HSI Sikkim
Started 31 October 2010, last revision 06 November 2010

Plans available to build a scale model of HMAS Uralba?
Started 31 October 2010, last revision 31 October 2010 Link

von Luckner: new book and exhibition
Started 24 October 2010, last revision 31 October 2010

William Palmer: survived the sinking of HMS Voltaire. Pictures from the Voltaire and Marlag u Milag Nord POW camp
Started 23 October 2010, last revision 23 October 2010 Link

Photo of the Dunedin Star?
Started 23 October 2010, last revision 23 October 2010

Former enemies strike up a friendship 67 years after fateful battle
Started 23 October 2010, last revision 23 October 2010 Link

Benjamin Hall 2/12 AUST INFANTRY BATALLION
Started 13 October 2010, last revision 13 October 2010

Plans of  von Luckner's Vaterland?
Started 13 October 2010, last revision 31 May 2011 Link

Sligo is in the Republic of Ireland, and *NOT *in Northern Ireland
Started 12 October 2010, last revision 12 October 2010

Advice (as a naval officer) about some operational procedures that I'm not quite clear about?
Started 11 October 2010, last revision 11 October 2010 Link

Frederick William Wall (or Friderich Wilheim Wall) sail with Captian Cook?
Started 11 October 2010, last revision 11 October 2010

More aircraft and bombs dropped in the Darwin Air Raid of 19 February 1942 than on Pearl Harbor
Started 11 October 2010, last revision 11 October 2010 Link

Lt Cmdr Hugh Crofton Simms, RN., Capt of H.M.S Hurricane
Started 11 October 2010, last revision 11 October 2010

Mauretania or Nieuw Amsterdam last sailing 1945
Started 03 October 2010, last revision 03 October 2010 Link

Richard Hector Walsh telegraphist lost in sinking of HMS Mourne
Started 03 October 2010, last revision 03 October 2010

Kapt Juergen Von Rosenstiel U-502 and Sinking of Surcouf
Started 02 October 2010, last revision 02 October 2010 Link

Patrick C Ryan ex RN 221024, who was a survivor from HMS Culver when it sank in Jan/42
Started 02 October 2010, last revision 02 October 2010

Duncan Cowx, a midget sub operator in WW2?
Started 02 October 2010, last revision 03 October 2010 Link

City of Benares - RAAF rescue
Started 27 September 2010, last revision 02 October 2010

Tocumwal Historical Museum
Started 27 September 2010, last revision 27 September 2010 Link

Table with plate naming shipbreaking yard in Northumberland
Started 26 September 2010, last revision 26 September 2010

John Lawrance Green and Gertrude Pearce Landsborough, passengers on SS Oronsay 1
Started 26 September 2010, last revision 26 September 2010 Link

Mary Rodwell
Started 26 September 2010, last revision 26 September 2010

TSS Captain Cook maiden voyage to New Zealand departing from Glasgow on 5th February 1952
Started 26 September 2010, last revision 26 September 2010 Link

Joseph Power (fireman) died in one of the three life rafts after sinking of in April 1941 of the SS Beaverdale
Started 26 September 2010, last revision 26 September 2010

Chester Lemon was in Cairns as crew on USS PC 477 in late 1943. Meet "straggler" from the White Fleet?
Started 26 September 2010, last revision 26 September 2010 Link

Joe Tulip and the stuka attack on HMS Esperance Bay
Started 26 September 2010, last revision 26 September 2010

Witnessing the sea battle between the German Aux Cruiser "Stier" and the Liberty Ship "Harry Hopkins"
Started 26 September 2010, last revision 03 October 2010 Link

SS Ophelia or SS Huntley picture?
Started 22 September 2010, last revision 22 September 2010

Thanks
Started 22 September 2010, last revision 22 September 2010 Link

HMAS Otway Museum Holbrook is up and running
Started 22 September 2010, last revision 22 September 2010

Harry William Christie, affectionately known as "Babe," served in HMAS Australia from February 1943 to March 1946
Started 21 September 2010, last revision 21 September 2010 Link

Tom Smith, Voltaire POW imprisoned at Marlag und Milag Nord
Started 21 September 2010, last revision 21 September 2010

Glasgow to Wellington in Captain Cook
Started 21 September 2010, last revision 21 September 2010 Link

Chief Petty Officer Tremba in the Sea Raven which rescued 33 brave Australians
Started 23 August 2010, last revision 23 August 2010

Albert Frank Patterson, Petty Officer Stoker, died when the Electra was sunk during the Java Sea battle of Feb 1942
Started 23 August 2010, last revision 23 August 2010 Link

John Harry Morgan, late of the Empire Lake
Started 23 August 2010, last revision 23 August 2010

Capture of Karl Donitz' & Baton
Started 23 August 2010, last revision 23 August 2010 Link

Air Commodore WH 'Bull' Garing CBE, DFC, Captain of the Sunderland from 10 Sqn RAAF found the last lifeboat from the City of Benares
Started 15 August 2010, last revision 27 September 2010

Able Seaman Leonard Tucker of the Royal Navy lost on Empire Gold
Started 15 August 2010, last revision 23 August 2010 Link

Hospital Ship Vita
Started 15 August 2010, last revision 15 August 2010

Corrections: Russian Waships in 1820 visits to Australia
Started 15 August 2010, last revision 26 September 2010 Link

Thomas Harold Williams on the Jumna was a prisoner on Raider Wolf
Started 15 August 2010, last revision 15 August 2010

William Henry Garing, Captain of the RAAF Sunderland which located the last of the lifeboats with Mary Cornish and others
Started 10 August 2010, last revision 10 August 2010 Link

HMHS Somersetshire
Started 10 August 2010, last revision 10 August 2010

Looking to make a model of HMS Electra on the last assignment in the Java Sea 1942
Started 10 August 2010, last revision 10 August 2010 Link

Fully restored Fairey Firefly
Started 10 August 2010, last revision 10 August 2010

Surgeon Captain R.G. Anthony was, I think, the senior medical officer on the Vita
Started 10 August 2010, last revision 10 August 2010 Link

New Zealand Govt declares Sept 3rd as MERCHANT NAVY DAY
Started 10 August 2010, last revision 10 August 2010

Captain J P Sparling
Started 10 August 2010, last revision 10 August 2010 Link

Request from Russian TV Channel: HMS Edinburgh
Started 03 August 2010, last revision 03 August 2010

Keith Jessop: salvage diver (dove on HMS Edinburgh) Obituary
Started 03 August 2010, last revision 03 August 2010 Link

Captain James Cook's speech on his arrival at Kurnell 1770 Botany Bay?
Started 03 August 2010, last revision 03 August 2010

Fate of Australian Hudson bombers lost in attacks on Rabaul, 1942?
Started 03 August 2010, last revision 03 August 2010 Link

Identity of vessel quite near the remains of the Mt. Hood, Manus Island?
Started 03 August 2010, last revision 03 August 2010

Seaman Ernest Hitchon, aged 22m Ordinary Seaman killed in attack on HMS Esperance Bay
Started 24 July 2010, last revision 24 July 2010 Link

Peter Birchall was amongst those 93 passengers who died when Athenia sank
Started 21 July 2010, last revision 21 July 2010

Joseph and Elnetta Macdonald survive sinking of Athenia?
Started 18 July 2010, last revision 10 August 2010 Link

Maxwell Robert Windus Stoker Petty Officer
Started 18 July 2010, last revision 18 July 2010

Liberty Ship Albert M. Boe NOT scrapped
Started 18 July 2010, last revision 18 July 2010 Link

Pictures of commemorative Graf Spee bells
Started 18 July 2010, last revision 18 July 2010

Leslie John Connell WWII Convoy to Singapore
Started 10 July 2010, last revision 10 July 2010 Link

Hello from U.S. of A
Started 10 July 2010, last revision 10 July 2010

Seabee Batallion "The Penguins?"
Started 05 July 2010, last revision 05 July 2010 Link

Jack P. Wagner of the US Army in Stalag VIIIb (Stalag 344) with Voltaire crew
Started 05 July 2010, last revision 05 July 2010

WW2 Hospital ship Sydney or HMHS Oxfordshire?
Started 05 July 2010, last revision 05 July 2010 Link

HMAS Brisbane final voyage
Started 05 July 2010, last revision 05 July 2010

Fran West, first woman pilot to fly around the coast of Australia (mainland and Tasmania) in a light aircraft
Started 05 July 2010, last revision 07 July 2010 Link

James "Copper" Morrow
Started 29 June 2010, last revision 29 June 2010

Thomas Holloway missing in HMS Mourne, 15 June 1944
Started 29 June 2010, last revision 29 June 2010 Link

Photo of the Athenia
Started 29 June 2010, last revision 05 July 2010

Athenia was built in Glasgow
Started 24 June 2010, last revision 24 June 2010 Link

HMS Lord Austin
Started 23 June 2010, last revision 23 June 2010

Possibly HMAS Platypus
Started 23 June 2010, last revision 23 June 2010 Link

Samuel Heales lost in Galway Castle, Sunk 1918
Started 23 June 2010, last revision 23 June 2010

Navy Hospital Ship Jerusalemme (sic) - July 1946
Started 23 June 2010, last revision 23 June 2010 Link

HMS Repulse photographs
Started 15 June 2010, last revision 15 June 2010

Band aboard HMAS Canberra in her early days after commissioning
Started 15 June 2010, last revision 15 June 2010 Link

Hospital ship HMHS Somersetshire
Started 09 June 2010, last revision 09 June 2010

Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds  awarded to Fregattenkapitän Albrecht Brandi
Started 09 June 2010, last revision 09 June 2010 Link

Lt. W B Jackson of HMS Voltaire, who died of wounds received during the sinking of the ship
Started 09 June 2010, last revision 09 June 2010

Macslog / Herbert Hoover
Started 02 June 2010, last revision 02 June 2010 Link

"The CSS Florida burns the Jacob Bell" whale tooth scrimshaw carving
Started 31 May 2010, last revision 01 June 2010

Alberto Johannes Fredrick Collasius
Started 29 May 2010, last revision 29 May 2010 Link

John Fearnley HMS Voltaire, POW
Started 29 May 2010, last revision 29 May 2010

William Pringle killed on the Rawalpindi
Started 29 May 2010, last revision 29 May 2010 Link

Jack Templeton Deck Cadet/Acting 3rd Mate on the first voyage of the SS Henry Bergh
Started 29 May 2010, last revision 29 May 2010

Who was this Australian Merchant Navy badge issued to?
Started 26 May 2010, last revision 26 May 2010 Link

von Luckner and Capt Isaac Stainthorp, Master of SS Horngarth
Started 26 May 2010, last revision 29 May 2010

Request for Official (newspaper source) of Athenia Survivors?
Started 26 May 2010, last revision 26 May 2010 Link

Edward Paton killed on the HMS Ladybird in Tobruk harbour May 12th 1941
Started 26 May 2010, last revision 26 May 2010

N W Hull died in explosion of HMS Bulwark 26 November 1914
Started 26 May 2010, last revision 26 May 2010 Link

Capt. Albert Terrance Mastin and MV Devon Coast
Started 26 May 2010, last revision 26 May 2010

Photos of Japanese Submarine I-401 surrendering Sept 6 1945
Started 19 May 2010, last revision 19 May 2010 Link

Book launch May 15, 2010
Started 19 May 2010, last revision 26 May 2010

Harry Bull died on HMS Curacoa after being run down by Queen Mary
Started 19 May 2010, last revision 19 May 2010 Link

Colonel William Nicholas Stafford-Gaffney late of the Kings Corps of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers R.I.P
Started 19 May 2010, last revision 26 May 2010

Able Seaman DAVID NOBLE, H.M.S. Alcantara
Started 18 May 2010, last revision 18 May 2010 Link

Capt. John McMillan - was the first master of City of Benares
Started 18 May 2010, last revision 18 May 2010

Kirill Nõu, Estonian refugee, disappeared 9th Sept. 1947 on Marine Phoenix
Started 18 May 2010, last revision 03 April 2011 Link

Accounts of the loss of whaling vessels during the Civil War
Started 18 May 2010, last revision 18 May 2010

Grief and HMS Alcantara
Started 11 May 2010, last revision 18 May 2010 Link

Stephen St George, Able Seaman, suvived sinking of Canberra
Started 11 May 2010, last revision 11 May 2010

HMS Nelson in WW1
Started 11 May 2010, last revision 11 May 2010 Link

Italian cruiser San Giorgio sunk in Tobruk. 1941, Geoffrey Keyes VC
Started 07 May 2010, last revision 07 May 2010

Pictures of the SS City of Benares?
Started 07 May 2010, last revision 03 October 2010 Link

Any naval ships built at Port Kembla durng WW2?
Started 07 May 2010, last revision 07 May 2010

Robert Thomas Terry and was a gunner in the Canberra and then Shropshire
Started 29 April 2010, last revision 19 May 2010 Link

Tuscan Star torpedoed 6th Sept. 1942
Started 26 April 2010, last revision 26 April 2010

RAN Centenary 1911-2011
Started 26 April 2010, last revision 26 April 2010 Link

French Submarine Surcouf LIFE Photos
Started 24 April 2010, last revision 24 April 2010

Request for Athenia Survivor Source List
Started 24 April 2010, last revision 24 April 2010 Link

Cpl Harold LePlastrier Jackson board the SS Matunga as a civil servant when it was sunk by the German raider Wolf
Started 24 April 2010, last revision 25 April 2010

Galway Castle
Started 24 April 2010, last revision 24 April 2010 Link

Hospital Ship St. Patrick, WW1?
Started 21 April 2010, last revision 13 October 2011

Looking for twin of Cyril Frank Timms who may have served in the Merchant Marines, WW2
Started 20 April 2010, last revision 20 April 2010 Link

Leonard Robert Sykes, Walda Katrina Sykes, Shirley Margaret Sykes, survived sinking of Athenia
Started 20 April 2010, last revision 20 April 2010

1944 Leopoldville tragedy
Started 17 April 2010, last revision 17 April 2010 Link

Robert Menzies quote?
Started 17 April 2010, last revision 20 April 2010

"The Dear Surprise" website is dedicated to Patrick O’Brian’s epic Aubrey/Maturin series
Started 17 April 2010, last revision 24 April 2010 Link

Stingray caught in anchor
Started 12 April 2010, last revision 20 April 2010

Valirus Magnessen originally from Norway and trek across the Andies after sinking
Started 12 April 2010, last revision 20 April 2010 Link

Pilot Officer Cecil Mason, in Eric Feldt's excellent book The Coastwatchers, folboats
Started 12 April 2010, last revision 12 April 2010

Grave of Major William Martin, lost in HMS Dasher, Operation Mincemeat
Started 11 April 2010, last revision 11 April 2010 Link

Athenia sinking, 1939, survivors
Started 11 April 2010, last revision 11 April 2010

Royal Marine in both the first and secod world wars. He was a corporal and he died 28.1.1942 in Gibralter
Started 07 April 2010, last revision 24 April 2010 Link

A big find! My Dad's own story
Started 07 April 2010, last revision 07 April 2010

MAORI TV - ANZAC 2010, VON LUCKNER story
Started 07 April 2010, last revision 07 April 2010 Link

Operation Deadlight. Father served on H M S Loch Tarbert at the end of WW2
Started 07 April 2010, last revision 12 April 2010

William J. Phillips, an shipyard electrician's helper early in WWII
Started 01 April 2010, last revision 01 April 2010 Link

John Sidney Lazarus, radio operator, lost in S.S. City of Benares
Started 29 March 2010, last revision 29 March 2010

Tony Lawton spent four years as a Radio Officer on British Ships during World War 2
Started 29 March 2010, last revision 29 March 2010 Link

WWII Naval Hat?
Started 29 March 2010, last revision 29 March 2010

Hospital carrier ship St David Nov 1939 and pictures from the Life Magazine Archives
Started 23 March 2010, last revision 19 December 2011 Link

HMS Campbell, destroyer
Started 23 March 2010, last revision 23 March 2010

Harold William Chipperton, Royal Artillery, was on the HMAT Warilda when it was torpedoed and sunk on Aug 3 1918
Started 21 March 2010, last revision 21 March 2010 Link

Ships named Shenandoah and Sea King
Started 21 March 2010, last revision 18 May 2010

Diary from a crew member in HMS Galatea around 1867
Started 21 March 2010, last revision 21 March 2010 Link

Russian gold on HMS EDINBURGH
Started 21 March 2010, last revision 21 March 2010

What happened to the Camerons, prisoners on merchant raider Wolf?
Started 21 March 2010, last revision 21 March 2010 Link

George Ewart Williams: attempting to trace his movements during WW2
Started 21 March 2010, last revision 21 March 2010

Eugeniusz Kowalski may have been working on S/S Warszawa
Started 16 March 2010, last revision 16 March 2010 Link

Signal Letters of British Ships
Started 16 March 2010, last revision 16 March 2010

Jack Doherty, ships cook the Volendam  
Started 16 March 2010, last revision 16 March 2010 Link

Captain George Gibb Captain of the Clipper ship Loch Ard
Started 16 March 2010, last revision 16 March 2010

Arthur Ruehrwein survived Point Honda disaster
Started 16 March 2010, last revision 16 March 2010 Link

SS Galway Castle, Child Hero
Started 16 March 2010, last revision 23 June 2010

Stan Mayes served in Conakrian and Viking Star and others in WW2
Started 16 March 2010, last revision 16 March 2010 Link

Convoy Documentary series on DVD
Started 23 February 2010, last revision 23 February 2010

Death of a young crew member of Captains Cook's Edeavour?
Started 23 February 2010, last revision 23 February 2010 Link

Cornelius Johannes Smith perished on board the Galway Castle when it was torpedoed in 1918?
Started 23 February 2010, last revision 23 February 2010

Patrick Rooney survived the sinking of the Voltaire
Started 23 February 2010, last revision 23 February 2010 Link

One of the ships in Bari Harbour that was lost was MV Devon Coast
Started 23 February 2010, last revision 23 February 2010

New book: HMAS Bataan 1952 featuring the period when Warwick Bracegirgle was commanding officer
Started 16 February 2010, last revision 16 February 2010 Link

Graf Spee Bell
Started 16 February 2010, last revision 16 February 2010

Fate of the CSS Georgia
Started 16 February 2010, last revision 16 February 2010 Link

Henry Cansdale (Empire Gold) was my Uncle
Started 15 February 2010, last revision 15 February 2010

Leonard Thomas Berlyn served on the HMS Cumberland during WW2
Started 15 February 2010, last revision 15 February 2010 Link

American Great White Fleet's world tour visited Melbourne
Started 15 February 2010, last revision 15 February 2010

Acknowlededging Robert Curran for compiling "Spectacle Island History"
Started 15 February 2010, last revision 15 February 2010 Link

Enquiry about WWII landing craft tank wreck in Western Crete
Started 12 February 2010, last revision 12 February 2010

Alfred Edward Victor Green able seamen on HMS Kent
Started 11 February 2010, last revision 11 February 2010 Link

George F Crowe, killed in HMS Voltaire
Started 11 February 2010, last revision 11 February 2010

SMS Westburn
Started 11 February 2010, last revision 11 February 2010 Link

Information on the RSS Orama?
Started 10 February 2010, last revision 22 September 2012

Arthur Richard Reading, survived the sinking of HMS Springbank
Started 09 February 2010, last revision 09 February 2010 Link


Started 09 February 2010, last revision 09 February 2010

Thomas Murray Macfarlane captain of HMHS Leinster?
Started 09 February 2010, last revision 11 February 2010 Link

RW Creswell was a Captain in the Imperial Camel Corps (Australian ) died on November 6, 1917
Started 07 February 2010, last revision 07 February 2010

John Eric Barker who died on the ss North Britain in Atlantic Convoy ONS5
Started 07 February 2010, last revision 10 February 2010 Link

British Destroyer at Tossa de Mar in 1936 during Spanish Civil War?
Started 07 February 2010, last revision 07 February 2010

HMS Narwhal
Started 07 February 2010, last revision 07 February 2010 Link

George FS Herrick able seaman, HMS Glendowerand war graves at St Cawrdaf
Started 07 February 2010, last revision 07 February 2010

Australian Folboats
Started 07 February 2010, last revision 07 February 2010 Link

Alfred Edward Victor Green served in HMS Kent
Started 07 February 2010, last revision 07 February 2010

HMAS Platypus photo?
Started 28 January 2010, last revision 07 February 2010 Link

Lance Sergeant Samuel Heales lost in SS Galway Castle
Started 26 January 2010, last revision 27 November 2011

Captain John Barnes Rugg was skipper of the "Dee", one of the many vessels captured by the Wolf
Started 26 January 2010, last revision 26 January 2010 Link

How many survivors: HMNS DE Ruyter
Started 25 January 2010, last revision 25 January 2010

HMS Galatea crew details about 1867?
Started 25 January 2010, last revision 26 January 2010 Link

Wood from The CSS Shenandoah
Started 25 January 2010, last revision 25 January 2010

Were there 2 CSS Shenandoahs?
Started 25 January 2010, last revision 25 January 2010 Link

Photos of a hospital ship
Started 25 January 2010, last revision 07 February 2010

Frank McKenna - Great White Fleet 1908 Melbourne
Started 25 January 2010, last revision 25 January 2010 Link

TSS Nestor convoy DN 51 sailed from Durban 8.7.1943
Started 25 January 2010, last revision 25 January 2010

Liberty ship Roger B Taney and Coast Guart Cutter Taney
Started 25 January 2010, last revision 01 April 2011 Link

HMS Victory Medalets impression of King George V
Started 23 January 2010, last revision 25 January 2010

S.S. Winona
Started 23 January 2010, last revision 23 January 2010 Link

Walter Adaszynski survived sinking of Athenia
Started 23 January 2010, last revision 23 January 2010

For King and Empire certificate 1946
Started 23 January 2010, last revision 23 January 2010 Link

Robert Francis George Burchell, HMAS Nizam
Started 21 January 2010, last revision 21 January 2010

Tug M.V. Petit Manean 
Started 20 January 2010, last revision 20 January 2010 Link

Convoy HX 126
Started 20 January 2010, last revision 20 January 2010

John Klemp, Master of the SS Petrel, sunk on Convoy HG-73 and survived
Started 20 January 2010, last revision 20 January 2010 Link

Fred Sonneborn sailed in Marine Phoneix, 1952
Started 20 January 2010, last revision 20 January 2010

Edward "Jumbo" Gracie, WW2 Malta pilot; Ordinary Signalman DA Bond HMS Dasher
Started 20 January 2010, last revision 20 January 2010 Link

Convoy HX 126
Started 13 January 2010, last revision 13 January 2010

Reginald Smith was the radiographer in the hospital ship HS Leinster
Started 12 January 2010, last revision 12 January 2010 Link


Started 10 January 2010, last revision 10 January 2010

Headstone of Crawford W Willis Captain of the Hospital Ship Madras 1915-1918
Started 04 January 2010, last revision 04 January 2010 Link

John Henry WARREN (born 1877 Germany John Henry SCHNACKERS) sailed in Oronsay
Started 04 January 2010, last revision 04 January 2010

Ivah Z. Jones was National President of Blue Stars Mothers of America
Started 02 January 2010, last revision 02 January 2010 Link

Searching for William H Evans or his family from his dog tags
Started 02 January 2010, last revision 02 January 2010

Commodore Charles Beresford Osborne, von Luckner and Seeadler
Started 02 January 2010, last revision 02 January 2010 Link

George Knight.I sailed in Bengore Head as a deck apprentice when Capt. Quail was in command
Started 02 January 2010, last revision 02 January 2010

Cyril Tingley, Able Seaman, Gunner, was lost in HMS Transylvania when she was sunk on 10th August, 1940
Started 31 December 2009, last revision 31 December 2009 Link

Hyman Feldman was a prisoner of war in Marlag
Started 31 December 2009, last revision 31 December 2009

Maria (or Mary) Dick (nee Webster) survived sinking of Athenia
Started 31 December 2009, last revision 31 December 2009 Link

Graham Wallace was a sub-lieutenant in HMS Gould when she was sunk in 1944
Started 30 December 2009, last revision 30 December 2009

Peter Stanley served in hospital ship Gerusalemme
Started 30 December 2009, last revision 30 December 2009 Link

392 PATTERSON PLAQUE AT THE REGINA COELI MEMORIAL CHURCH NEAR SYDNEY
Started 30 December 2009, last revision 30 December 2009

Australian Folboats
Started 30 December 2009, last revision 30 December 2009 Link

Eyewitness account: "Poisonous Inferno: World War II Tragedy at Bari Harbour" by George Southern
Started 28 December 2009, last revision 30 December 2009

Cook aboard HMS Auraniam; attacked by U-123 under the command of Reinhard Hardegen
Started 28 December 2009, last revision 28 December 2009 Link

Thomas George Baker ships writer for sub tender HMS Maidstone
Started 28 December 2009, last revision 28 December 2009

HMS Springbank when it was sunk by U-201
Started 28 December 2009, last revision 28 December 2009 Link

Maxwell Robert Windus -RAN
Started 22 December 2009, last revision 22 December 2009

Walter HUGHES or John LOONE, Wreck of Royal Charter, 1859
Started 22 December 2009, last revision 22 December 2009 Link

Capt. Bert Quailzz
Started 21 December 2009, last revision 22 December 2009

Donald Roy MacRae - who was the Master of the S.S. Cortes when she was sunk on the 26th September 1941
Started 21 December 2009, last revision 21 December 2009 Link

F6F Hellcat fighter recovered from Lake Michigan
Started 21 December 2009, last revision 21 December 2009

"Wreck of Loch Ard" a poem by Graeme McIntosh
Started 21 December 2009, last revision 23 December 2009 Link

Hospital ship Centaur discovered off Queensland coast
Started 20 December 2009, last revision 22 December 2009

Prisoner on board the Sea Eagle
Started 18 December 2009, last revision 21 December 2009 Link

Mary (Park) Blais, a survivor of the September sinking of the Athenia?
Started 18 December 2009, last revision 18 December 2009

Father came to the US from Poland via Glasgow in Letitia1
Started 18 December 2009, last revision 18 December 2009 Link

Leonard Hubble served in and survived the sinking of SS Oronsay
Started 18 December 2009, last revision 22 April 2012

Updated link: The Laws of the Navy and Other Poems, by Admiral Ronald Hopwood, C.B.
Started 18 December 2009, last revision 18 December 2009 Link

Turakina sunk by the German raider Orion on the 20th. August, 1940
Started 18 December 2009, last revision 18 December 2009

'Yacht' piano allocated to the SS Guildford Castle
Started 18 December 2009, last revision 18 December 2009 Link

Jerome Furmanm killed on the SS Jacksonville in 1944
Started 17 December 2009, last revision 17 December 2009

Henry Coombs, Southampton
Started 11 December 2009, last revision 11 December 2009 Link

John Merlin Flint killed in action in H.M.S. President III
Started 07 December 2009, last revision 21 December 2009

Ary Deijl served as a telegraphist-gunner, survived sinking of Dutch cruiser 'De Ruyter'
Started 30 November 2009, last revision 30 November 2009 Link

Information about Empire Mersey, sunk in October, 1942 and the MV Bonaire
Started 29 November 2009, last revision 29 November 2009

James Gray of Leith, Scotland, who was part of Captain Cook's crew
Started 29 November 2009, last revision 29 November 2009 Link

Daniel Honan, Merchant Seaman
Started 27 November 2009, last revision 27 November 2009

Small error on Iwo Jima webpage
Started 27 November 2009, last revision 27 November 2009 Link

Postcards depicting the German Fleet scuttled at Scarpa Flow 1919
Started 22 November 2009, last revision 22 November 2009

Witness to Air Raid on the Forth Bridge
Started 20 November 2009, last revision 20 November 2009 Link

George Albert Knowlton lost in SS Ario
Started 20 November 2009, last revision 20 November 2009

Andrew Quinn, a NZ POW at a camp at Gustrow
Started 19 November 2009, last revision 19 November 2009 Link

Al Monroe, signalman in USS Canberra
Started 15 November 2009, last revision 20 November 2009

Models of Sydney 1, Sydney 11, and possibly Perth and Hobart in limited release
Started 14 November 2009, last revision 14 November 2009 Link

Walter Schmietenknop, U-767 Survivor
Started 14 November 2009, last revision 14 November 2009

George S Livanos sunk by th Japanese Submarine I-11
Started 14 November 2009, last revision 14 November 2009 Link

Painting of HMS Voltaire by William Palmer who survived the sinking
Started 14 November 2009, last revision 14 November 2009

Value of Jane's Fighting Ships 1941 (Issued 1942)?
Started 14 November 2009, last revision 14 November 2009 Link

John F. Arnold was in HMS Lord Austin when she sunk
Started 11 November 2009, last revision 23 March 2011

Find Image of Scarborough?
Started 11 November 2009, last revision 11 November 2009 Link

Walter Schmietenknop U 767
Started 11 November 2009, last revision 10 March 2010

George Nudd died on the sinking M.V. Harboe Jenson
Started 11 November 2009, last revision 11 November 2009 Link

Survivor of Athenia
Started 11 November 2009, last revision 11 November 2009

Family of 7, only 3 survive Ewdokia Kucharczuk and her three children: sons, Stefan and Jakeb, and daughter Aleksandra were among those killed in sinking of Athenia
Started 10 November 2009, last revision 10 November 2009 Link

George William Brown Potts was on board the SS Monberg when it sunk on the 15th of December 1940
Started 10 November 2009, last revision 10 November 2009

Picture of Canberra in the map of Australia
Started 08 November 2009, last revision 08 November 2009 Link

Mrs. Hannah Baird lost in Athenia sinking
Started 08 November 2009, last revision 06 September 2014

Australian MIAs from the Pacific War
Started 08 November 2009, last revision 08 November 2009 Link

Harriet Barrington killed on the Athenia
Started 06 November 2009, last revision 06 November 2009

Trafalgar Union Jack sets auction world record
Started 06 November 2009, last revision 06 November 2009 Link

Passenger list for HMS Captain Cook left England Feb 5th 1952?
Started 06 November 2009, last revision 06 November 2009

French pilot Marie Marvingt
Started 06 November 2009, last revision 06 November 2009 Link

Pacific Fury and The Battle for Singapore by Peter Thompson
Started 04 November 2009, last revision 04 November 2009

New book: Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 by D.M. Giangreco
Started 03 November 2009, last revision 06 November 2009 Link

WW 1 convoy that left Albany in late 1914 for Egypt?
Started 03 November 2009, last revision 04 November 2009

Search for the personal stories of the people onboard of the Athenia
Started 31 October 2009, last revision 01 April 2012 Link

Old Bell recovered off the coast of Chile
Started 31 October 2009, last revision 31 October 2009

Documenting Camell Laird's ship histories
Started 31 October 2009, last revision 31 October 2009 Link

Sydney to San Francisco in Marine Pheonix in 1947
Started 30 October 2009, last revision 30 October 2009

British Pathe films HMAS Shropshire
Started 29 October 2009, last revision 30 October 2009 Link

Finding about the paid passengers on the First Fleet? Henry Waterhouse
Started 28 October 2009, last revision 29 October 2009

Victor Cooke Robinson served as 2nd Engineer on the Bengore Head
Started 25 October 2009, last revision 29 October 2009 Link

Father served in HMS Repulse when it was sunk
Started 25 October 2009, last revision 25 October 2009

Royal Oak sinking/Voltaire
Started 23 October 2009, last revision 23 October 2009 Link

SS City of Benares
Started 23 October 2009, last revision 24 October 2009

HMS Lord Warden
Started 23 October 2009, last revision 23 October 2009 Link

Speaking at the Toorak Services Club Navy Lunch
Started 21 October 2009, last revision 23 October 2009

She was then driven to the west of Papua to join the Gerusalemme to sail to Hong Kong.
Started 21 October 2009, last revision 21 October 2009 Link

Joan Hecht Lorber, SS Athenia survivor, R.I.P
Started 20 October 2009, last revision 20 October 2009

Richard (Dick) Hughes Jones served in Dunedin Star 
Started 19 October 2009, last revision 19 October 2009 Link

How to donate to the Naval Heritage Foundation of Australia for the 7 foot six inch bronze statue?
Started 17 October 2009, last revision 17 October 2009

H J Dukem, served in HMS Voltaire
Started 17 October 2009, last revision 18 October 2009 Link

HMS Euryalus (WW1 Cruiser)
Started 17 October 2009, last revision 17 October 2009

Arthur J Dickson survived Saranac, steamer tanker torpedoed 25/06/1940
Started 17 October 2009, last revision 17 October 2009 Link

Memorial somewhere in the area to commemorate the settlement of 1826 at Corinella?
Started 17 October 2009, last revision 19 October 2009

Athenia Survivors: Doris MacLeod, Betty Jean MacLeod, Dorothy MacLeod, John Charles MacLeod
Started 16 October 2009, last revision 16 October 2009 Link

SS Maheno
Started 16 October 2009, last revision 16 October 2009

Where is the original ships bell from HMAS Canberra? and...
Started 16 October 2009, last revision 16 October 2009 Link

Thomas Hogan Lt. (j.g.), Naval Aviator on board the USS Sangamon, CVE-26, Battle of Leyte Gulf
Started 12 October 2009, last revision 12 October 2009

John Edward Stanley lost in hospital ship Centaur
Started 12 October 2009, last revision 12 October 2009 Link

John Harry Morgan MN died with the infamous sinking of the Collier, Empire Lake off Madagascar in 1943
Started 12 October 2009, last revision 23 August 2010

HMS Riviera / Lairds Isle
Started 12 October 2009, last revision 12 October 2009 Link

Serving in the RAN's three County Class Cruisers
Started 10 October 2009, last revision 10 October 2009

Walter Warburton was a DEMS gunner on the Tanker Sepia
Started 10 October 2009, last revision 10 October 2009 Link

William Edward Smith NX 45070 sailed in Zelandia to Singapore
Started 10 October 2009, last revision 10 October 2009

William "Flash" Gordon - Recordings of "Gordon #1 and Gordon #2"
Started 10 October 2009, last revision 10 October 2009 Link

James Cairns Morrow "Copper"
Started 10 October 2009, last revision 10 October 2009

John Loone survivor of the wreck of the Royal Charter and 150th Anniv. Royal Charter
Started 10 October 2009, last revision 10 October 2009 Link

Bernice Jansen, missionary on Athenia
Started 10 October 2009, last revision 12 October 2009


Started 08 October 2009, last revision 08 October 2009 Link

Manus Boyle- what part of Ireland he came from?
Started 08 October 2009, last revision 08 October 2009

Threatening to demolish a large part of the Jetty at Great Yarmouth, where Nelson landed after the Battle of the Nile in 1800
Started 05 October 2009, last revision 05 October 2009 Link

Times newspaper page dated 21/08/1941 announcing the the "Roll of Honour" of HMS Voltaire
Started 05 October 2009, last revision 05 October 2009

Alfred William HAZELL, was an Able Seaman on the Voltaire when it down
Started 03 October 2009, last revision 03 October 2009 Link

Vivian Carpenter AKA James Brewster Carpenter, WW1 Merchant Marine, Donkeys at Gallipoli
Started 03 October 2009, last revision 20 October 2009

Royal Naval Reservist on the Rawalpindi
Started 03 October 2009, last revision 03 October 2009 Link

First Air Attack on UK of WW2
Started 29 September 2009, last revision 20 November 2009

Thank you for your contributions
Started 28 September 2009, last revision 28 September 2009 Link

William C Roach, Chief Petty Officer, died in the disaster involving HMS Curacoa and the Queen Mary
Started 27 September 2009, last revision 29 September 2009

Images of the rescue of Poseidon survivors
Started 23 September 2009, last revision 23 September 2009 Link

Harry William Butler, Chief Petty Officer
Started 22 September 2009, last revision 22 September 2009

Moresby Admirals and their relatives
Started 20 September 2009, last revision 20 September 2009 Link

Roger Coward HMS Voltaire
Started 20 September 2009, last revision 20 September 2009

Figureheads on the ships of the early explorers to North America?
Started 20 September 2009, last revision 20 September 2009 Link

Photo of HMAS Canberra Walrus Aircraft L2239?
Started 20 September 2009, last revision 20 September 2009

Transportng HMAS Pirie's ships bell
Started 17 September 2009, last revision 17 September 2009 Link

HMS Camperdown's collision with HMS Victoria
Started 17 September 2009, last revision 17 September 2009

70th anniversary of the sinking of Athenia
Started 14 September 2009, last revision 14 September 2009 Link

James Gray (born 1745, Leith, Midlothian) my great great great great grandfather
Started 08 September 2009, last revision 08 September 2009

SS St. David Hospital Ship
Started 08 September 2009, last revision 08 September 2009 Link

HMS Implacable
Started 06 September 2009, last revision 06 September 2009

A M A Thomson went on the HMS Dasher
Started 06 September 2009, last revision 27 September 2009 Link

HMS Research
Started 04 September 2009, last revision 04 September 2009

Martha Goddard, Athenia
Started 04 September 2009, last revision 04 September 2009 Link

Robert (Bob) Bryson MacArthur Sim an engineer survived the torpedoeing of SS Athenia
Started 02 September 2009, last revision 02 September 2009

John Carlton [known as Jock] was also a stoker on Rawalpindi and was a POW for the duration of the war
Started 01 September 2009, last revision 01 September 2009 Link

Roy Souter, serving in Lord Austin when her stern was blown off.
Started 01 September 2009, last revision 01 September 2009

Ada May Waterman, was aboard Athenia when it was torpedoed in 1939. She survived.
Started 31 August 2009, last revision 31 August 2009 Link

C. Miller Fisher, the doctor on board the Voltaire. He spent more than 3 years at Marlag und Milag nord
Started 30 August 2009, last revision 30 August 2009

Patrick Dunn survivor of Port Brisbane 1940
Started 30 August 2009, last revision 02 September 2009 Link

Port Bowen was not sunk striking a mine laid by the German Raider Orion
Started 30 August 2009, last revision 31 August 2009

Sad news, Harry Mee. R.I.P.
Started 30 August 2009, last revision 30 August 2009 Link

Gordon Baker was a Stoker first class on the Curacoa and was lost in collision with the Queen Mary
Started 27 August 2009, last revision 27 August 2009

Some survivors of HMS Poseidon were brought to Hermes after its sinking.
Started 27 August 2009, last revision 28 August 2009 Link

Uniform for Chief Officer in the Merchant Navy, WW2
Started 26 August 2009, last revision 28 August 2009

Denis Ford Patterson, one of the captured British people onboard the Wolf
Started 24 August 2009, last revision 24 August 2009 Link

Richard T Harris - Pass of Bermuda
Started 24 August 2009, last revision 24 August 2009

Boneo Victoria
Started 21 August 2009, last revision 21 August 2009 Link

Submarine E 47, 1917 crew: ERA John Curwen Tomlinson
Started 20 August 2009, last revision 20 August 2009

HMAS Perth Photograph
Started 20 August 2009, last revision 20 August 2009 Link

Jack Edgar Stevenson Served Aboard SS Albino Perez during Convoy UGS-40
Started 20 August 2009, last revision 20 August 2009

Uncle served in RFA Aldersdale sunk in PQ 17 Arctic Convoy
Started 20 August 2009, last revision 20 August 2009 Link

Umpire when it was captured by the Barque Tacony
Started 20 August 2009, last revision 20 August 2009

Ernest Claude Baxter served in Le Tigre, lost in HMS Ellesmere which was sunk by U-boat 1203
Started 18 August 2009, last revision 26 June 2011 Link

SS Derflinger
Started 18 August 2009, last revision 18 August 2009

Postcard of some of HMS Effingham's crew, 1926
Started 18 August 2009, last revision 18 August 2009 Link

Contacting SS Athenia survivors?
Started 18 August 2009, last revision 18 August 2009

Alfred Leon worked on the merchant ships along side my dad, James Alcock, both taken prisoner
Started 18 August 2009, last revision 18 August 2009 Link

Mike Wezensky served in USS Camberra
Started 15 August 2009, last revision 15 August 2009

Tankard presented to people who went to Athenia's rescue
Started 15 August 2009, last revision 15 August 2009 Link

John (Jack) Campbell Williams, RAAF, was a fitter/ armourer, posted on loan to Canberra
Started 15 August 2009, last revision 16 August 2009

Ian Mantle was 2IC and officer of the watch on the LORD AUSTIN when it sank on June 24 1944
Started 11 August 2009, last revision 11 August 2009 Link

Lieutenant- Commnader R.E. Sherwood, R.N.R. in his smart frigate Tay
Started 10 August 2009, last revision 11 August 2009

Researching WW2 Naval Training Information
Started 04 August 2009, last revision 04 August 2009 Link

USS Mugford picture
Started 02 August 2009, last revision 02 August 2009

Robert Mckane Aitken and the Loch Ard
Started 02 August 2009, last revision 04 August 2009 Link

Hugh Wathew Taggart, R.N.R. died from Voltaire
Started 02 August 2009, last revision 02 August 2009

SCHOOL BOOK FOUND 1945: HMAS Warramunga
Started 30 July 2009, last revision 30 July 2009 Link

Douglas M. Masters served on the HMS Viidette as a french interpreter during WWII
Started 30 July 2009, last revision 30 July 2009

Henry Lawrence Bache died on the  SS Arandora Star 1940
Started 29 July 2009, last revision 29 July 2009 Link

Graf Spee memorial bell
Started 29 July 2009, last revision 29 July 2009

Eyewitness account of HMS Victoria disaster?
Started 26 July 2009, last revision 26 July 2009 Link

Find sailing details of Oronsay for her voyage to Brisbane in 1928?
Started 26 July 2009, last revision 27 July 2009

David McLean survived the sinking of the HMS Voltaire
Started 25 July 2009, last revision 25 July 2009 Link

The first US mini sub was not built till 1955
Started 25 July 2009, last revision 25 July 2009

Walter Costick was one of 13 survivors of  HMS Culver
Started 25 July 2009, last revision 08 November 2009 Link

Lewis Wilfred Le Page was an able seaman on board the H.M.S. Transylvania when it went down on August 1940
Started 24 July 2009, last revision 24 July 2009

Photos etc. about this voyage of the Mopelia
Started 24 July 2009, last revision 24 July 2009 Link

Richard T. Harriss owned the Pass of Bahmaha and leased it to the U.S. government during WWI
Started 24 July 2009, last revision 26 July 2009

Seeadler pen & ink drawing
Started 23 July 2009, last revision 23 July 2009 Link

I have written on 13 of the 27 Field Marshalls so far
Started 17 July 2009, last revision 17 July 2009

Louisa O, having been 'born on the high seas aboard HMS Orontes'
Started 07 July 2009, last revision 07 July 2009 Link

Sydney/Emden Medal
Started 05 July 2009, last revision 05 July 2009

The Royal Charter and a visit to Moelfre, Angelesy
Started 19 June 2009, last revision 19 June 2009 Link

Was Steven Wainwright Cracknall a deserter from the Great White Fleet?
Started 19 June 2009, last revision 19 June 2009

Frank William Tucker died aboard HMS Boadicea in 1944 aged only 19yrs
Started 14 June 2009, last revision 14 June 2009 Link

Bertie Hunt, instructor at Whale Island gunnery school at Portsmouth known as HMS Excellent
Started 14 June 2009, last revision 14 June 2009

George Hope and HMAS Shropshire's Pom Pom crew
Started 14 June 2009, last revision 14 June 2009 Link

HMS Rame Head
Started 14 June 2009, last revision 14 June 2009

Edmund John Lovegrove not on the Canberra crew list at the time of her sinking
Started 14 June 2009, last revision 14 June 2009 Link

Alexander Brockie served in HM Submarine Sickle
Started 14 June 2009, last revision 14 June 2009

Spoon with Athenia crest
Started 14 June 2009, last revision 14 June 2009 Link

Dunedin Star film?
Started 14 June 2009, last revision 14 June 2009

New book on British and British Commonwealth participation in the end of World War II
Started 09 June 2009, last revision 09 June 2009 Link

Brin Submarine - Italian Navy World War II
Started 07 June 2009, last revision 07 June 2009

Rescue in the Night - Saturday Evening Post July 17, 1943
Started 07 June 2009, last revision 07 June 2009 Link

Herbert Alfred Quennell survived Alcantara
Started 07 June 2009, last revision 07 June 2009

RAN Bridging Train at Gallipoli and HMAS Cerberus
Started 07 June 2009, last revision 08 June 2009 Link

Thomas Montague Priske, merchant seaman, sail in S.S. Shropshire?
Started 03 June 2009, last revision 03 June 2009

Walter Valentine Windram, known as Val, survived attack on H.M.A.S. Canberra
Started 03 June 2009, last revision 03 June 2009 Link

Robert Emmett McElhenny list in attack on H.M.A.S Canberra
Started 03 June 2009, last revision 03 June 2009

Transport as an immigrant from Germany to Australia in 1950 aboard the “Goya” which traveled to Australia through the Suez canal
Started 02 June 2009, last revision 02 June 2009 Link

RAN Bridging Team
Started 02 June 2009, last revision 02 June 2009

Commemoration medal of the H.M.S. Galatea visit to Australia in 1867
Started 01 June 2009, last revision 01 June 2009 Link

Bruce McLean Wallace survivor of HMS Trinidad
Started 27 May 2009, last revision 27 May 2009

Leonard Edgar Charles Chapman, ordinary seaman, lost in sinking of Voltaire
Started 24 May 2009, last revision 24 May 2009 Link

Captain of Civil War blockade runner, Modern Greece?
Started 21 May 2009, last revision 21 May 2009

Capt. Larz Neilson, probably master of the Benjamin Goodhue, was near Bari
Started 21 May 2009, last revision 21 May 2009 Link

James Aurthur Haining perished on the Canberra
Started 20 May 2009, last revision 20 May 2009

Fannie Olive Durning, served in WWI as a nurse aboard a hospital ships Loyatly and Madras
Started 20 May 2009, last revision 04 January 2010 Link

George Mcewan survivied sinking of Athenia
Started 20 May 2009, last revision 20 May 2009

Chales Frederick Mead - born c.1868 Fareham, Hampshire, England and served with the New Zealand arm of the Royal Navy
Started 20 May 2009, last revision 20 May 2009 Link

Maurice Monin [known as Bub] served on the Shropshire during the second World War
Started 20 May 2009, last revision 20 May 2009

Information on HMAS Australia II for model
Started 19 May 2009, last revision 19 May 2009 Link

Underwater Aircraft Recovery from Lake Michigan - WW 2 Carrier training
Started 19 May 2009, last revision 29 May 2009

Declassifying Operation Downfall
Started 19 May 2009, last revision 19 May 2009 Link

SS Oriana and two ships bearing the name Oronsay
Started 19 May 2009, last revision 19 May 2009

Montevideo Maru Project and website
Started 19 May 2009, last revision 19 May 2009 Link

"Shipwreck Coast" should be more aptly named the "Miracle Coast"
Started 19 May 2009, last revision 19 May 2009

IJN Exchange Officers to German U-Boats?
Started 03 May 2009, last revision 03 May 2009 Link

Liberty Ship, Star of Kodiak, NOT scrapped?
Started 29 April 2009, last revision 30 April 2009

HMS Ladybird
Started 29 April 2009, last revision 29 April 2009 Link

Arandora Star Crew List?
Started 29 April 2009, last revision 29 April 2009

Documentary about the ship wreck in Tobruk area?
Started 29 April 2009, last revision 29 April 2009 Link

Why No VC for HMS Rawalpindi Commander, Captain Kennedy?
Started 26 April 2009, last revision 26 April 2009

Survivors of HMS Boadicea
Started 26 April 2009, last revision 26 April 2009 Link

Armed Guard WWII tankers SS SS Bear Paw, and the SS Balls Bluff
Started 26 April 2009, last revision 26 April 2009

Archibald Parkes McColough was a stoker on the Glenart Castle on its last voyage
Started 20 April 2009, last revision 21 April 2009 Link

Starting a Loch Ard Historical Society
Started 20 April 2009, last revision 19 May 2009

RANGITATA-APRIL-1945, convoy was CU-65 not HX 348 
Started 19 April 2009, last revision 19 April 2009 Link

Bruce Petty author of "At War in the Pacific" and LCI(G)440
Started 18 April 2009, last revision 18 April 2009

HMS Culver - Harold (Reginald) Holt
Started 18 April 2009, last revision 19 April 2009 Link

Film starring Van Heflin, who portrayed a German Naval Captain?
Started 18 April 2009, last revision 18 April 2009

A question about Commander Warwick Bracegirdle?
Started 12 April 2009, last revision 12 April 2009 Link

Dominick Maurone, Sr., navy veteran of WW2, served aboard the LCI(G)440
Started 12 April 2009, last revision 12 April 2009

Harry ( Reginald ) Holt  lost in torpedo attack, HMS Culver
Started 11 April 2009, last revision 11 April 2009 Link

USS San Fransisco and another submarine grounding
Started 08 April 2009, last revision 08 April 2009

Sidney Cotton
Started 08 April 2009, last revision 08 April 2009 Link

James Anderson lost in sinking of HMS Rawlapindi, 23 November 1939
Started 08 April 2009, last revision 08 April 2009

Octans
Started 05 April 2009, last revision 30 April 2009 Link

Photo of Goya, the second ship to carry the name
Started 05 April 2009, last revision 05 April 2009

Military Vehicle Collectors Australia, MVCA, have a website and forum
Started 05 April 2009, last revision 05 April 2009 Link

Assistance needed for building models of Sydney 1, Emden, Canberra and Australia plus the original Australia
Started 05 April 2009, last revision 05 April 2009

Battle of the Atlantic
Started 04 April 2009, last revision 05 April 2009 Link

Joseph Stanyer killed on SS Empire Newcomen?
Started 29 March 2009, last revision 30 March 2009

Please help: Researching for a book about all ships lost on operational service with the RAN
Started 25 March 2009, last revision 26 March 2009 Link

Clemson Class Destroyers - Pictures from 1920's
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 17 April 2010

Woody Woodhall autobiography (Soldier Sailor and Airman Too) Battle of Malta
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 24 March 2009 Link

Frank Webb, served as torpedo instructor on the Repulse when she was sunk and survived
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 24 March 2009

Question on Warship Alarm: Actions Stations and General Quarters
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 24 March 2009 Link

Athenia records for Ms. Davina Curtis
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 24 March 2009

Bell commemorates Graf Spee's" successful start to WW2
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 29 March 2009 Link

Alexander Laing died on the Alcantara
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 24 March 2009

James Cooper from Braintree (erroneously enlisted Leigh on Sea) in Camberwell missing since 6 - 8 - 1915, photo?
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 24 March 2009 Link

Climbing Croagh Patrick
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 24 March 2009

Mark (later Lord) Tennyson was serving in HMS Bicester when she escorted the famous convoy taking desparately needed oil to Malta
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 05 April 2009 Link

Shipboard Foundry
Started 18 March 2009, last revision 18 March 2009

F. Kendall,  J. Haining and T.Phillipson in HMAS Caberra at Battle of Savo Island
Started 18 March 2009, last revision 18 March 2009 Link

Passenger lists for Athenia July 4th 1933 or August 1933?
Started 18 March 2009, last revision 18 March 2009

Francesco Fortunata Gentile served as cook in SS Ramillies
Started 18 March 2009, last revision 11 January 2011 Link

HMAS Nizam and HMS Foxhound picked up survivors from Dutch ship, Gaasterkerk, torpedoed on the 8th of October 1942
Started 18 March 2009, last revision 18 March 2009

Enid Louise Peach (born Tapscott) was the sister of Robert Tapscott, SS Anglo Saxon
Started 18 March 2009, last revision 01 December 2010 Link

Harold Winfield Hamm, Jr aboard Mugford during attack on Pearl Harbor
Started 18 March 2009, last revision 18 March 2009

Agnes McFarlane who we believe was killed with her daughter Gladys on the Athenia
Started 18 March 2009, last revision 18 March 2009 Link

U.S. Navy report on loss of USS Vincennes, USS Quincy, and USS Astoria at Savo Island
Started 18 March 2009, last revision 18 March 2009

Is there a memorial for victims of the Bari Raid?
Started 08 March 2009, last revision 08 March 2009 Link

Donald C. Mayer served in USS Gyatt DD712/DDC 1
Started 08 March 2009, last revision 08 March 2009

Bump in the Road
Started 08 March 2009, last revision 08 March 2009 Link

Sidney Cotton, HMAS Shropshire
Started 07 March 2009, last revision 08 March 2009

HMS Dasher Association seeking to establish a website
Started 02 March 2009, last revision 02 March 2009 Link

Athenia passengers: George Bihun (age 16),William Bihun (age 14),Walter Bihun (age 12)
Started 02 March 2009, last revision 08 March 2009

Searching for HMS X5 for the past 35 years in Arctic Norway
Started 02 March 2009, last revision 02 March 2009 Link

Searching for WW1 hospital ship
Started 21 February 2009, last revision 02 March 2009

Passenger on SS Letitia 2
Started 21 February 2009, last revision 21 February 2009 Link

Diary -  HMS Orama left London on 24th July 1926 and arrived in Melbourne on about 29th August
Started 21 February 2009, last revision 02 March 2009

Janet Lougee (Nee Chamberlain) and Tony Chamberlain were passengers on the Ceramic on the night of 11th August 1940, the collision with SS Testbank
Started 21 February 2009, last revision 21 February 2009 Link

Lona Marie (nee Attfield) Manning survived sinking of Athenia
Started 20 February 2009, last revision 20 February 2009

Rachel Adair McBride Lamont and Alexander Lamont survived sinking of Athenia
Started 20 February 2009, last revision 20 February 2009 Link

Position of Ships sunk from Convoy ONS 5?
Started 17 February 2009, last revision 17 February 2009

Photo of a Manila Cemetery or Manus from Mount Hood Disaster?
Started 15 February 2009, last revision 15 February 2009 Link

Location of the Cheshire at the sinking of the SS Leopoldville?
Started 15 February 2009, last revision 15 February 2009

British Cruiser HMS Caledon
Started 14 February 2009, last revision 14 February 2009 Link

Lowell Thomas and friends and workers went on a Caribbean cruise with von Luckner in 1929
Started 14 February 2009, last revision 14 February 2009

Margaret Gilmore Chief Petty Officer, Royal NZ Women's Naval Service
Started 13 February 2009, last revision 14 February 2009 Link

Did Cammel Laird have a factory in Coventry during WW1?
Started 13 February 2009, last revision 13 February 2009

Tobruk ship wrecks
Started 13 February 2009, last revision 13 February 2009 Link

Mother Mapp was a famous bone setter for Nelson's sailors...
Started 07 February 2009, last revision 07 February 2009

Naval illustrator looking for data on 5 Australian cruisers
Started 06 February 2009, last revision 06 February 2009 Link

HMAS Huon naval base at Hobart
Started 06 February 2009, last revision 06 February 2009

Tie pin with replica of Merchant Navy Officers' Cap Badge
Started 06 February 2009, last revision 07 February 2009 Link

Harry Bernard Fidling, a gunner, served in Merchant Ships manning their armament, and was killed on the 15th. of October 1942
Started 06 February 2009, last revision 07 February 2009

Frank Webb served as torpedo instructor on the HMA Repulse survived sinking
Started 05 February 2009, last revision 21 February 2009 Link

Albert Charles Butterfield Born 1915 Lambeth london, killed 10 April 1941, Tobruk
Started 01 February 2009, last revision 01 February 2009


Started 01 February 2009, last revision 01 February 2009 Link

Hospital ship St David sunk on 24th. of January 1944, two days after the Anzio landings 
Started 31 January 2009, last revision 26 April 2010

Identification cards from the ship Athenia
Started 31 January 2009, last revision 17 February 2009 Link

Late father was a chef on board the Oronsay
Started 28 January 2009, last revision 08 October 2009

HMS Rawalpindi
Started 28 January 2009, last revision 03 June 2009 Link

Captain Cook's crew on the Third Voyage
Started 28 January 2009, last revision 02 February 2009

William Humphries in sail training ship. Tingira, 1912 - 1913
Started 28 January 2009, last revision 02 February 2009 Link

Lost when S.S. Drina was torpedoed
Started 28 January 2009, last revision 17 October 2009

Battle of Malta
Started 25 January 2009, last revision 25 January 2009 Link

German radio-controlled glide bombs and the 11 May 1944 attack on UGS-40
Started 22 January 2009, last revision 22 January 2009

Original Marconi grams that I have concerning the sinking of the SS Athenia
Started 22 January 2009, last revision 25 January 2009 Link

New pictures of Len Hiller and others who served on the Voltaire
Started 22 January 2009, last revision 22 January 2009

William Storey went down in SS Royal Charter
Started 20 January 2009, last revision 23 July 2013 Link

"Eadie" rescued from the Athenia?
Started 19 January 2009, last revision 19 January 2009

Percy W Gore lost in sinking of S.S Cortes
Started 19 January 2009, last revision 19 January 2009 Link

HMAS Gordon—formerly HMVS Gordon
Started 19 January 2009, last revision 20 October 2009

Albert Augustus Wolff in Athenia 1, sunk by German U-Boat, U-53 on August 16 in 1917
Started 19 January 2009, last revision 19 January 2009 Link

John Joseph O'Malley lost his life in USS Mt. Hood 10 NOV 1944
Started 14 January 2009, last revision 14 January 2009

HMAS Sydney Commission of Inquiry
Started 14 January 2009, last revision 14 January 2009 Link

Grandfather, David Don, was on the SS Athenia when it was torpedoed
Started 14 January 2009, last revision 14 January 2009

Descendant of Admiral Morseby
Started 14 January 2009, last revision 14 January 2009 Link

Cloche du Graf Spee
Started 14 January 2009, last revision 14 January 2009

Pictures of PO William (Doug) Dyke in the engine room on Canberra?
Started 14 January 2009, last revision 14 January 2009 Link

At Andrew's Uniting Church, Brisbane, they have 2 banners: a viking type ship and an anchor
Started 07 January 2009, last revision 10 January 2009

Rear Admiral Jo Tanaka? Was he a Captain on the Cruiser Kitakami? twice sunk in but two days
Started 06 January 2009, last revision 10 January 2009 Link

Did Arthur Holmes, a British Royal Navy reservist, serve in HMAS Sydney?
Started 06 January 2009, last revision 22 January 2009

Archibald Jordan, HMS President III
Started 06 January 2009, last revision 06 January 2009 Link

Trying to identify some naval vessels in turn of the 19/20th century photographs and am interested in a well-illustrated book about this era
Started 06 January 2009, last revision 06 January 2009

Robert Amherst Walder DSM was on priracy patrols along the Yangtze during the 1920's and Malta convoys aboad HMS Wishart
Started 04 January 2009, last revision 04 January 2009 Link

William Joyce alias Lord Haw-Haw not Sir Percival Hawley
Started 04 January 2009, last revision 04 January 2009

Rear Admiral Tanaka
Started 04 January 2009, last revision 03 June 2011 Link

HMS Dasher secrecy
Started 03 January 2009, last revision 03 January 2009

Service in Arctic Convoys
Started 03 January 2009, last revision 03 January 2009 Link

Seeadler print with an original letter to the captain from Rave and a nice picture of the captain and a woman
Started 03 January 2009, last revision 03 January 2009

Stamps
Started 03 January 2009, last revision 03 January 2009 Link

Health
Started 29 December 2008, last revision 29 December 2008

Peter Nelson Bekusch and John Nelson Bekusch survived sinking of Athenia
Started 29 December 2008, last revision 29 December 2008 Link

Robert Francis George Burchell was head cook and was killed in 1941 on the HMAS Nizam
Started 29 December 2008, last revision 04 January 2009

Kevin Hobbs served in the RAN during WW2
Started 29 December 2008, last revision 03 January 2009 Link

Capt I E G Goldsworthy
Started 29 December 2008, last revision 29 December 2008

Passenger list for S.S. Goya at the National Archives of Australia
Started 29 December 2008, last revision 29 December 2008 Link

Petty Officer Louis Anton Gyss he died of injuries that he received in the boiler room of the H.M.A.S Vampire (Photos)
Started 29 December 2008, last revision 29 December 2008

No Royal Navy ships were sunk at Battle of Dakar
Started 29 December 2008, last revision 29 December 2008 Link

4th Graf Spee 1939 Bell?
Started 29 December 2008, last revision 29 December 2008

Supposed WW1 Sea Mine discovered of NZ West Coast of South Island, one of Wolf's old mines laid in 1917?
Started 19 December 2008, last revision 19 December 2008 Link

Crests of ships that took part in the Battle of Narvik?
Started 19 December 2008, last revision 19 December 2008

Relieved that you are still with us!!! Thank you to Jayne!
Started 19 December 2008, last revision 20 December 2008 Link

Convoyweb To Mac Gregory
Started 19 December 2008, last revision 19 December 2008

Book: 1942, Australia’s Greatest Peril
Started 13 December 2008, last revision 13 December 2008 Link

That lastest "Bump"
Started 13 December 2008, last revision 13 December 2008

George Hollaway/Tanner server in Empire Mersey and in Empire Whale
Started 13 December 2008, last revision 13 December 2008 Link

Sydney John Gibbins, Aircraftman 1st Class, served in HMS Courageous
Started 13 December 2008, last revision 13 December 2008

Pat Gillon was in the SS North Britain
Started 07 December 2008, last revision 07 December 2008 Link

Seaman William Seal of S.S. Otaki
Started 07 December 2008, last revision 07 December 2008

Ernest Parcell, usually known as "Ernie" an instrument maker in the workshops at the Frythe
Started 07 December 2008, last revision 07 December 2008 Link

Barbara Bailey, Athenia survivor
Started 07 December 2008, last revision 07 December 2008

US Naval vessels might have been in port with officers on shore leave during Sept-Nov 1942 in either Sydney or Brisbane ports?
Started 07 December 2008, last revision 07 December 2008 Link

Searching for info or photo of the Bornholm
Started 05 December 2008, last revision 05 December 2008

Ellis Jackson may have been the gunner on the Otaki when it was attacked by the Raider Moewe
Started 05 December 2008, last revision 05 December 2008 Link

This story of HMS Glorious Sinking
Started 22 November 2008, last revision 22 November 2008


Started 22 November 2008, last revision 22 November 2008 Link

Images: Easter Greeting card, H.M.S. Electra. dated 1940, H.M.S. Rodney 1944, H.M.S. Suffolk 1932, H.M.S. Repulse, H.M.S. Renown
Started 22 November 2008, last revision 29 November 2008

HMAS Canberra before WW2
Started 21 November 2008, last revision 21 November 2008 Link

John Eric Jenkins sailor who went down with the Caledonian Monarch
Started 21 November 2008, last revision 21 November 2008

HMAT Shropshire WW1


Started 21 November 2008, last revision 21 November 2008 Link

Yeoman of Signals Frank Coombes, O.N. 205280 served in HMS Alcantara and was at the Boxer Rebellion on HMS Glory
Started 21 November 2008, last revision 21 November 2008

William Littleton served in HMS Boadicea
Started 21 November 2008, last revision 21 November 2008 Link

Duke of Edinburgh photo Tahiti circa 1870
Started 21 November 2008, last revision 21 November 2008

William Edward SMITH NX45070
Started 19 November 2008, last revision 06 February 2012 Link

John Moresby's plaque in Holy Trinity Church, Fareham
Started 19 November 2008, last revision 19 November 2008

Ashtray with a ship and underneath is the name “Canberra"
Started 18 November 2008, last revision 18 November 2008 Link

Able Seaman James Thomson served in SS Baron Newlands?
Started 18 November 2008, last revision 18 November 2008

Any lines / plans of Seeadler that would be useful to a modeller?
Started 18 November 2008, last revision 18 November 2008 Link

Jack Stanbury (John William Stanbury) survived the attack on the HMAS Canberra, and served in HMAS Shropshire, killed by a landmine on the 27th. of May 1943.
Started 18 November 2008, last revision 07 December 2008

Picture of HMS Mourne K261
Started 18 November 2008, last revision 18 November 2008 Link

T Price, Ordinary Seaman lost his life in sinking of Voltaire
Started 18 November 2008, last revision 18 November 2008

List of deserters from GWF in Melbourne 1908. Know how whoever got this list got it?
Started 18 November 2008, last revision 18 November 2008 Link

S S Wilrilda Hospital ship
Started 09 November 2008, last revision 09 November 2008

Submarine I-401, largest of WWII submarines
Started 09 November 2008, last revision 09 November 2008 Link

Poem from HMS Chitral: "It was xmas day on the CHITRAL The boys they dripping like hell..."
Started 05 November 2008, last revision 05 November 2008

Adm Ortoli, former CO of FSS SURCOUF (1940 – 1941)
Started 30 October 2008, last revision 30 October 2008 Link

SS Athenia, Glasgow to Montreal around 1935
Started 30 October 2008, last revision 05 November 2008

Isabel MacDonald (nee Barr) and Ronald Hugh Livingston MacDonald survived the sinking Athenia
Started 30 October 2008, last revision 30 October 2008 Link

George Wormald, lost in sinking Empire Lake 15 July 1943 - Looking for survivors of SS Empire Lake
Started 30 October 2008, last revision 18 July 2011

Togo of Tsushima, pictures from Admiral Togo's visit to the USA in 1911 and 1934 Time Magazine Obit
Started 29 October 2008, last revision 29 October 2008 Link

Air purification of Subs in WW1
Started 27 October 2008, last revision 27 October 2008

Manifest for the passengers that boarded the S.S. Athenia in 1939?
Started 27 October 2008, last revision 27 October 2008 Link

Warning! Warning! Strange ships entering the harbor!
Started 27 October 2008, last revision 27 October 2008

Wreck of the Rewa
Started 27 October 2008, last revision 27 October 2008 Link

Screws helped to drive the HMS Victoria wreck straight into the bottom?
Started 22 October 2008, last revision 22 October 2008

Richard Blake sole survivor of submarine Sickle, 1944
Started 21 October 2008, last revision 21 May 2012 Link

Release of HMAS Sydney II commemoration models
Started 21 October 2008, last revision 21 October 2008

Hospital ship Letitia repatriated Canadian troops and families
Started 18 October 2008, last revision 18 October 2008 Link

Survivor of Boadicea
Started 18 October 2008, last revision 18 October 2008

M.V. Petite Manaen
Started 18 October 2008, last revision 18 October 2008 Link

Thomas Burns, Leading Telegraphist, survived sinking of HMS Repulse
Started 09 October 2008, last revision 09 October 2008

Athenia & Electra's arrival date in Greenock
Started 09 October 2008, last revision 09 October 2008 Link

HMS Euryalus in the Persian Gulf, 1951
Started 07 October 2008, last revision 07 October 2008

Survivors of the Athenia
Started 04 October 2008, last revision 04 October 2008 Link

Cdr Henstock, HMS Hermes
Started 04 October 2008, last revision 04 October 2008

German U-Boat U9
Started 28 September 2008, last revision 28 September 2008 Link

Alexander Kerr served in hospital carrier ship St David when she went down
Started 28 September 2008, last revision 28 September 2008

Uncle was a member of the crew (age 20) on the Arandora Star when it was torpedoed and sunk in 1940
Started 27 September 2008, last revision 27 September 2008 Link

Queenscliffe Historical Museum presentation
Started 25 September 2008, last revision 25 September 2008

Duke of Edinburgh (front left) visits Royalty (Tahitian ladies) in 1870
Started 25 September 2008, last revision 25 September 2008 Link

Population for Albany at the time the US Great White Fleet visited in 1908?
Started 25 September 2008, last revision 25 September 2008

David Murray Captain's Steward on Athenia
Started 21 September 2008, last revision 21 October 2008 Link

Willie Jenkins survived sinking of Athenia
Started 14 September 2008, last revision 14 September 2008

LSt Bill Upton survived the sinking of HMS Repulse 
Started 14 September 2008, last revision 14 September 2008 Link

Stanley Broucher served in SS RAMILLIES
Started 11 September 2008, last revision 11 September 2008

Sinking of the Rodger B Taney
Started 11 September 2008, last revision 11 September 2008 Link

James Swan, 21 years old in September 1939, survived sinkings of Athenia and Gracia
Started 09 September 2008, last revision 09 September 2008

The Laws of the Navy and Other Poems, by Admiral Ronald Hopwood, C.B.
Started 09 September 2008, last revision 18 December 2009 Link

Horace George Moss, Royal Naval Rating - Signaller J.12422 (CH) was on HMS Pathfinder when she went down on the 5 September 1914
Started 01 September 2008, last revision 01 September 2008

William Pringle was killed on the Rawalpindi
Started 01 September 2008, last revision 01 September 2008 Link

Information about the crew the sunk ship Doggerbank (Speybank)
Started 01 September 2008, last revision 01 September 2008

George Phillips, HMS Hermes 9
Started 01 September 2008, last revision 01 September 2008 Link

Aknowledging the quotes from John Stone, and other paraphrasing of Craig Allen's script, from the ABC Stateline, ABC News Canberra in our story about the sinking of Iron Knight
Started 30 August 2008, last revision 30 August 2008

Lancastria Association of Scotland is tracing ex-servicemen and/or their families, who were on board HMT Lancastria when she sank in St Nazaire, France, during WW2
Started 30 August 2008, last revision 30 August 2008 Link

Royal British Legion Standard, Central Brittany Branch.at 2008 Lancastia ceremony - correction
Started 30 August 2008, last revision 30 August 2008

Story of the Athenia, its victims and survivors, could work well as a documentary
Started 30 August 2008, last revision 30 August 2008 Link

Tommy McLaughlin served on Athenia
Started 29 August 2008, last revision 29 August 2008

David Murray from Glasgow was the Captains steward on Athenia on that eventful night in 1939
Started 29 August 2008, last revision 21 October 2008 Link

James Joseph Blake may have "jumped ship" from a US Navy vessel during the tour of the Great White Fleet
Started 29 August 2008, last revision 29 August 2008

Question about one of your sources about CSS Alabama and Captain Weaver
Started 27 August 2008, last revision 27 August 2008 Link

Ballarat Courier coverage: Cadets ceremony and Great White Fleet Presentaion
Started 27 August 2008, last revision 27 August 2008

Deserters in Melbourne from the Great White Fleet
Started 15 August 2008, last revision 30 August 2008 Link

Emlyn Williams was an engineer on the Hospital Carrier St David when she was sunk off Anzio and survived
Started 06 August 2008, last revision 06 August 2008

Descendant of Admiral Morseby
Started 06 August 2008, last revision 07 August 2008 Link

How does the Hawker attach to the catapult cradle?
Started 05 August 2008, last revision 05 August 2008

Angus McDonald, Petty Officer Gunnery School is HMS Excellent or known as Whale Island is at Portsmouth?
Started 23 July 2008, last revision 23 July 2008 Link

John Philip Gunney of hospital ship HMS Plassy, 1915
Started 23 July 2008, last revision 23 July 2008

SS Oronsay
Started 23 July 2008, last revision 23 July 2008 Link

Rob Lee was Master of Dunedin Star when she went aground on the Skeleton Coast
Started 23 July 2008, last revision 23 July 2008

3rd Graff Spee bell? in Pennsylvania
Started 23 July 2008, last revision 23 July 2008 Link

President Grant took Canberra survivors home
Started 23 July 2008, last revision 23 July 2008

Commanding Officers of USS Missouri?
Started 15 July 2008, last revision 17 July 2008 Link

Robert "Zack" Lardner, the  IRON GATE mission, (or the Danube Mission)
Started 15 July 2008, last revision 17 July 2008

Robert George Tapscott and the Jolly Boat of the Anglo Saxon - correction
Started 13 July 2008, last revision 14 July 2008 Link

John Kinnersley, SS Empire Newcomen
Started 07 July 2008, last revision 07 July 2008

Commemorative Ceremony of the Lancastria tragedy. St.Nazaire  June 17th 2008
Started 28 June 2008, last revision 29 August 2008 Link

Website and Forum for the HMAS Voyager All Crews
Started 28 June 2008, last revision 28 June 2008

Eddie Laub, USS Missouri, made earrings from a United States Dime in homage to King Neptune
Started 27 June 2008, last revision 27 June 2008 Link

Captain Walter John Manley
Started 27 June 2008, last revision 27 June 2008

Was masquerading as unarmed neutral vessels considered legal, an allowable "ruse of war" for merchant raiders?
Started 21 June 2008, last revision 21 June 2008 Link

Henry Caleb Cameron Martin and HMT Sibajak

Started 21 June 2008, last revision 10 July 2010

Torpedo attack and sinking of the French Ship De-La-Salle
Started 21 June 2008, last revision 21 June 2008 Link

HMS Euryalus of the 4 funnel Cressy Class cruisers in the RN
Started 21 June 2008, last revision 21 October 2012

Blockade Runners: Heinz Kostka of Ramses. Fritz Sonnemann of Doggerbank and Charlotte Schliemann
Started 15 June 2008, last revision 10 March 2010 Link

Wooden hammer/mallet which was used at the launching of the Athenia
Started 14 June 2008, last revision 14 June 2008

Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby
Started 09 June 2008, last revision 15 June 2008 Link

John Cameron served in HMS SARDOYNX
Started 09 June 2008, last revision 09 June 2008

Lieut. R.V. Williams, MRNVR, was the Gunnery Officer & Instructor to HMS Pelandok
Started 08 June 2008, last revision 08 June 2008 Link

Gallipoli Hospital Ship Maheno
Started 08 June 2008, last revision 14 June 2008

John Burns, Arctic Convoy Veteran, Edinburgh, last journey down Royal Mile
Started 08 June 2008, last revision 08 June 2008 Link

"Lost Medals Australia" searching for descendants of John Wellesley FLOOD and Mrs Rose FLOOD (nee COOMBES)
Started 08 June 2008, last revision 08 June 2008

Exeter and Graf Spee
Started 08 June 2008, last revision 08 June 2008 Link

Frederick (Fred) Brindley (90 yrs old on 7th June '08) was onboard The HMS Duke of York
Started 15 May 2008, last revision 15 May 2008

Leslie George Thornton served in HMAS Shropshire
Started 03 May 2008, last revision 03 May 2008 Link

Linda Dalton survived sinking of Athenia
Started 03 May 2008, last revision 09 June 2008

Jessie Lowe (Jessie Makay) a nurse/stewardess on the Athenia?
Started 29 April 2008, last revision 29 April 2008 Link