Ahoy - Mac's Web Log

Linda Dalton survived sinking of Athenia
Started 03 May 2008, last revision 03 May 2008 Link

Leslie George Thornton served in HMAS Shropshire
Started 03 May 2008, last revision 03 May 2008

Von Luckner was a prisoner of war for a while on Ripapa Island near Lyttelton South Island New Zealand
Started 29 April 2008, last revision 29 April 2008 Link

Jessie Lowe (Jessie Makay) a nurse/stewardess on the Athenia?
Started 29 April 2008, last revision 29 April 2008

Jean-Paul Lorcet participated in the battle of Mers el Kebir, managed to join the Free French Navy
Started 29 April 2008, last revision 29 April 2008 Link

Forthcominig article about rescue ship Stockport
Started 25 April 2008, last revision 25 April 2008

German ships and or crews interned in Brisbane during WW1
Started 20 April 2008, last revision 20 April 2008 Link

Under Ten Flags, movie of the German Armed Merchant Raider Atlantis
Started 20 April 2008, last revision 20 April 2008

Report by Captain Wardle, HMS Alcantara
Started 15 April 2008, last revision 15 April 2008 Link

Amphion class Gunnery: How was direct fire at very short range conducted?
Started 15 April 2008, last revision 20 April 2008

Liberty ship Liberty ship Roger B Taney torpedoed in the South Atlantic on the 2nd. of July 1943
Started 08 April 2008, last revision 29 April 2008 Link

Ralph Claude Hilton Jones, who died when HMS Mourne was sunk by U-767, June 1944
Started 08 April 2008, last revision 08 April 2008

Robert R. Fitzgerald died in a ship's accident in 1942 off the coast of Australia
Started 08 April 2008, last revision 08 April 2008 Link

Fred Shepherd, whom died amongst the disaster of the Lancastria
Started 08 April 2008, last revision 08 April 2008

Did Winston Churchill visited HMAS Australia sometime between late 1940 - early 1941?
Started 08 April 2008, last revision 08 April 2008 Link

Owen Griffith Lloyd served in HMS Veteran
Started 01 April 2008, last revision 01 April 2008

Bob Bird was official MAEE photographer at Helensburgh Scotland that tested the prototype and first production Sunderlands
Started 01 April 2008, last revision 01 April 2008 Link

Americans and British were reading Japanese signals, did they reveal P.O.W.'s aboard Japanese ships?
Started 23 March 2008, last revision 01 April 2008

Harold Jack Johns crew member for Count Von Luckner?
Started 23 March 2008, last revision 23 March 2008 Link

Petty Officer Francis Richard EVANS, born 1906, served in H.M.A.S. Sydney
Started 23 March 2008, last revision 23 March 2008

POW by the name of Edgar LeBlanc served in  Madrono that had been attacked by the Raider Thor
Started 23 March 2008, last revision 23 March 2008 Link

News that HMAS Sydney has been found, as well as Kormoran`
Started 23 March 2008, last revision 23 March 2008

Frank Watson served on H.M.S. Escort, picked up survivors from S.S. Athenia
Started 16 March 2008, last revision 17 March 2008 Link

A film based on my memories of Paris during the riots of 1968
Started 09 March 2008, last revision 09 March 2008

Jim Reilly, sailor in Voltaire
Started 05 March 2008, last revision 05 March 2008 Link

John Johnston Gibson Thomson - HMS Hythe 1943
Started 04 March 2008, last revision 04 March 2008

Owen Griffiith Lloyd, HMS Veteran
Started 04 March 2008, last revision 04 March 2008 Link

Arthur and Lily Moses, were aboard the Athenia when she was torpedoed
Started 02 March 2008, last revision 02 March 2008

W.D. Puttock, Acting Petty Officer, HMS Voltaire
Started 02 March 2008, last revision 02 March 2008 Link

Margaret Ray Hodge and Jocelyn M. Hodge survivied the sinking of Athenia
Started 02 March 2008, last revision 02 March 2008

Documentary about the liberty ships built in coastal Georgia, USA, during WWII
Started 02 March 2008, last revision 02 March 2008 Link

Pass of Balmaha, renamed Walter, On December 21, 1916 she sailed as Seeadler under command of Kapitanleutnant Felix von Luckner
Started 27 January 2008, last revision 27 January 2008

U-192
Started 27 January 2008, last revision 27 January 2008 Link

Value of Graff Spee artifacts?
Started 24 January 2008, last revision 24 January 2008

Duncan MacKenzie Wood Sr., wife Ann Scott Wood, and their son Duncan MacKenzie Wood Jr., all survived the sinking of the ATHENIA
Started 24 January 2008, last revision 24 January 2008 Link

Another Graf Spee commemorative  bell
Started 04 January 2008, last revision 04 January 2008

SS Athenia Glasgow Museums update, pictures and keys which came from Athenia's silver room
Started 04 January 2008, last revision 04 January 2008 Link

Silven R. Hunt wasaboard the  Ill Fated Block Island Carrier .. and the Guadalcanal
Started 04 January 2008, last revision 04 January 2008

H.M.S. Asia during the Battle of Navarino
Started 04 January 2008, last revision 04 January 2008 Link

Bill was a young 20 year old sailor on the river class frigate HMS Mourne
Started 04 January 2008, last revision 04 January 2008

H.M.H.S. Vita poems
Started 04 January 2008, last revision 04 January 2008 Link

Recording of Count von Luckner's voice?
Started 04 January 2008, last revision 04 January 2008

Possible contribution made by a Norman Ferris to the Allied cause in the Solomons
Started 04 January 2008, last revision 04 January 2008 Link

Jack 'Johnno' Johnson aboard Ladybird
Started 04 January 2008, last revision 04 January 2008

Edward John Wells (Ted), lost in Curacoa
Started 04 January 2008, last revision 04 January 2008 Link

Athenia lifeboat survives on Stronsay, part of the Orkney Islands
Started 17 December 2007, last revision 17 December 2007

Gerald Hutchinson, oldest living survivor of SS Athenia?
Started 16 December 2007, last revision 16 December 2007 Link

Graf Spee bell turns up in UK
Started 07 December 2007, last revision 07 December 2007

Rose Griffin survived sinking of Athenia
Started 03 December 2007, last revision 03 December 2007 Link

Crew list of the Ajax at the time of the battle of the River Plate
Started 30 November 2007, last revision 30 November 2007

Albert Ransome survived the Voltaire sinking and spent the remaining war years in a prison camp in Germany
Started 30 November 2007, last revision 30 November 2007 Link

Chief Machinist Mate James Edwin Pike survived sinking of USS. Perry
Started 30 November 2007, last revision 30 November 2007

James A. Goodson survived sinking of Athenia
Started 30 November 2007, last revision 30 November 2007 Link

Graf Spee and the Battle of the River Plate
Started 30 November 2007, last revision 30 November 2007

John Francis Mc Nichol was killed on the Boadicea when she was sunk on the 13/6/1944
Started 30 November 2007, last revision 30 November 2007 Link

Empress of Ireland artifacts going to The Royal Alberta Museum
Started 30 November 2007, last revision 30 November 2007

William Frederick Lloyd lost on Mourne
Started 30 November 2007, last revision 30 November 2007 Link

Phil Skeats was on Voltaire when attacked by Thor in 1941, taken POW
Started 30 November 2007, last revision 30 November 2007

A H Diack, Lieutenant on HMS Ladybird
Started 30 November 2007, last revision 30 November 2007 Link

Dutch Explorers correction
Started 30 November 2007, last revision 30 November 2007

James Heaps, a survivor of HMS Mourne on the 15th of June 1944
Started 25 November 2007, last revision 25 November 2007 Link

Captain Maxwell Rintels, captain of a Merchant ship?
Started 04 November 2007, last revision 04 November 2007

Thanks to Kevin Pickering of Shipwreck Films
Started 01 November 2007, last revision 01 November 2007 Link

LCDR Robert T. Stagner Jr. USN was assigned Brisbane. during the war I believe on S-46
Started 27 October 2007, last revision 27 October 2007

Shipping companies & Gympie gold mines 1870s
Started 25 October 2007, last revision 07 December 2007 Link

Florence Kelly Roseman & her mother, Mary Kelly, survived Athenia
Started 25 October 2007, last revision 29 October 2007

Pilot of the Sunderland aircraft S R Gibbs who was among the 9 we (Australia) resued from the downed aircraft in the Atlantic
Started 24 October 2007, last revision 25 October 2007 Link

Athenia Research, Museum of Transport, Glasgow
Started 24 October 2007, last revision 24 October 2007

S S Leopoldville: Disaster December 24, 1944
Started 23 October 2007, last revision 23 October 2007 Link

A M A Thomson lost in HMS Dasher
Started 23 October 2007, last revision 27 October 2007

Nickolas Gash, Athenia survivor
Started 23 October 2007, last revision 23 October 2007 Link

George Sneddon lost on Athenia?
Started 14 October 2007, last revision 14 October 2007

LCDR Centner (Later CAPT Centner) survived the sinking of ST LO (CVE-63) at Battle of Leyte Gulf
Started 14 October 2007, last revision 23 October 2007 Link

Hello Sir...!! great website.......
Started 14 October 2007, last revision 14 October 2007

RM R S Dobbs survived the sinking of the Curacoa
Started 14 October 2007, last revision 14 October 2007 Link

RMS Rangitata
Started 04 October 2007, last revision 04 October 2007

Matthew Flinder's Tom Thumb
Started 04 October 2007, last revision 04 October 2007 Link

Leslie John Holder, Radio Operator on duty who received the SOS from the ATHENIA after being torpedoed
Started 04 October 2007, last revision 06 November 2007

Elizabeth and Margaret Orr, survivors of Athenia
Started 29 September 2007, last revision 29 September 2007 Link

Permission to quote you?
Started 28 September 2007, last revision 28 September 2007

Translate Raiders of US Civil War and the two World Wars in Greek?
Started 28 September 2007, last revision 28 September 2007 Link

Alma Willis aboard a ship pursued by the raider Seeadler in 1915-16?
Started 28 September 2007, last revision 29 September 2007

John Morrison from Detroit, Mich, Athenia passenger?
Started 23 September 2007, last revision 23 September 2007 Link

Rescued from sinking of Lancastria
Started 23 September 2007, last revision 28 September 2007

Robert Halley Kirkwood (known as Hal) served on Canberra from May '41 until she was sunk in '42
Started 23 September 2007, last revision 23 September 2007 Link

HMS Athelqueen
Started 22 September 2007, last revision 22 September 2007

Bruce Webster, picture, can anyone recognise the other four faces and can give them a name?
Started 22 September 2007, last revision 22 September 2007 Link

Letter dated 22 September 1939 from Ruth, a survivor of S.S. Athenia
Started 09 September 2007, last revision 09 September 2007

My father is a survivor from the SS Athenia Sep. 3, 1939
Started 09 September 2007, last revision 06 January 2008 Link

Lost in sinking of SS Jacksonville, World War II
Started 09 September 2007, last revision 09 September 2007

Berta Rapp, Osias Rapp were survivors of the sinking of the Athenia
Started 09 September 2007, last revision 09 September 2007 Link

President Bush to visit Canberra Bell
Started 08 September 2007, last revision 09 September 2007

Joseph Gibson, passenger on Royal Charter?
Started 04 September 2007, last revision 09 September 2007 Link

HMAS Basilisk, a shore Naval Base in Port Moresby
Started 02 September 2007, last revision 02 September 2007

Ship that sailed from Australia in 1862 for Boston supposing captured by the Alabama?
Started 26 August 2007, last revision 23 September 2007 Link

Two ships named Athenia
Started 26 August 2007, last revision 26 August 2007

Gerard (G.) Wilhelmy Damsté who died in the Java Sea served in Hr.Ms. De Ruyter
Started 25 August 2007, last revision 25 August 2007 Link

Alfred D Holton, a gunner on a Liberty ship
Started 20 August 2007, last revision 21 August 2007

O. G. Lloyd served in HMS Veteran
Started 19 August 2007, last revision 19 August 2007 Link

HMAS Quiberon, looking for ship's log
Started 19 August 2007, last revision 19 August 2007

Started 12 August 2007, last revision 12 August 2007 Link

Value of  5 volumes of Captain James Cooks voyages that were printed in 1785 5 volumes?
Started 12 August 2007, last revision 12 August 2007

Victorian Artificial Reef Society seeking to place the EX-HMAS Canberra as an artificial reef out from Point Lonsdale
Started 12 August 2007, last revision 19 August 2007 Link

James Gray, an ancestor, who sailed with Captain Cook
Started 05 August 2007, last revision 05 August 2007

Kamakaze pilot who crashed into Missouri given a military funeral with full honors
Started 04 August 2007, last revision 04 November 2007 Link

Arthur Frank Wilkins.Leading Stoker HMS Porpoise
Started 04 August 2007, last revision 04 August 2007

Ports and airfields U.S. used in Australia during WWII
Started 04 August 2007, last revision 04 August 2007 Link

HMHS Glenart Castle was not the sole Hospital ship in WW1 to collect a torpedo
Started 29 July 2007, last revision 25 August 2007

HMS President 111 was not a ship, but a shore base near London
Started 29 July 2007, last revision 29 July 2007 Link

Arthur Davidson from Grimsby, skipper of HMS Lord Nuffield (Trawler)
Started 29 July 2007, last revision 29 July 2007

List of survivors from HMS Curacoa after she was run down by Queen Mary in October 1942?
Started 22 July 2007, last revision 22 July 2007 Link

James Smith, gunner in SS Ramillies
Started 22 July 2007, last revision 22 July 2007

Casualty list of HMS Rawalpindi?
Started 22 July 2007, last revision 29 July 2007 Link

Grave markings: Shot At Dawn?
Started 22 July 2007, last revision 22 July 2007

Jim Milling served on the HMAS Yarra and unfortunately went down with the ship
Started 21 July 2007, last revision 21 July 2007 Link

Roderick MacDonald Smith, 2nd Mate, died in WWII on the Caledonian Monarch on 14/1/1942
Started 21 July 2007, last revision 21 July 2007

Ifan Tom from South Wales was on the SS Boston and died after she was torpedoed in September 25th 1942
Started 21 July 2007, last revision 21 July 2007 Link

Started 21 July 2007, last revision 21 July 2007

Sergeant Charles Leslie Gough, one of the airmen you and the the crew of HMAS Australia rescued from the North Atlantic after their Sunderland went down!
Started 20 July 2007, last revision 20 July 2007 Link

Research on the BRENNAN Torpedo
Started 20 July 2007, last revision 20 July 2007

Link for Remembrance and ANZAC Days
Started 20 July 2007, last revision 20 July 2007 Link

James Tate was a cook on board Royal Charter and perished in the wreck
Started 20 July 2007, last revision 20 July 2007

HMS Orama 2
Started 03 July 2007, last revision 03 July 2007 Link

Color of Seeadler below the waterline?
Started 02 July 2007, last revision 02 July 2007

Harry Irwin Rouse served in HMAS Canberra
Started 02 July 2007, last revision 21 July 2007 Link

My late father served on as a stoker in HMAS Pirie
Started 01 July 2007, last revision 01 July 2007