Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. On board HMAS Perth, Sunda Strait: Cats may have nine lives but Red Lead, the ship's cat on HMAS Perth, seemed to know that hers had ...

HMAS Perth saw action in many theatres of World War II. Photo: Geoffrey Ward David Manning survived the sinking of HMAS Perth in World War II. Photo: Penny Stephens ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the end star shells were all David Manning had left. It was February 28, 1942, and Banten Bay, on the north-west coast of Java, was ...

Momentum is building in a campaign to protect the wreck of an Australian ship that went down during World War II. A team of divers from Australia and Indonesia will inspect HMAS Perth for damage later ...

THE Navy has raised concern about the apparent looting of the wreck of the HMAS Perth, which was sunk near Java in 1942 with the loss of 353 lives. Claims that scrap merchants were stripping the HMAS ...

LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: One dark night off the coast of Java in 1942, two Allied ships were caught off-guard and forced to face the invading Japanese battle fleet alone. The Australian warships HMAS ...

Millions of shipwrecks and archaeological sites lie under the ocean, including most infamously the Titanic, resting almost four kilometres below the North Atlantic. These relics are just as important ...

What: The Royal Australian Navy’s Anzac Class Frigate HMAS Perth will visit Wellington, NZ to participate in ANZAC Day remembrance ceremonies in Wellington and Carterton, demonstrate the capabilities ...

The navy says the new multi-phased array radar system has been installed on the Anzac-class frigate HMAS Perth, and identifies, tracks and guides missiles to several targets at the same time. The ...

The Abbott government should try to claim HMAS Perth as a war grave to prevent salvagers damaging the wreck, a historian and a survivor say. The federal government is being urged to claim HMAS Perth ...