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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MIKE CARLTON: We're between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. 70 years ago, a sea battle bloodied these calm waters. 353 brave young Australians were lost. The story of what happened here is ...

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 ...

PANAJI: The Royal Australian Navy’s Anzac-class frigate HMAS Perth, is on a five-day port visit to Goa as it makes its way back home to Australia after the completion of its Middle East deployment.

THERE were emotional scenes at Fleet Base West this morning as family and friends gathered to say goodbye as HMAS Perth set sail for its first mission abroad. The 192 personnel are headed to the ...

More than 74 years after HMAS Perth I was sunk by the Japanese in the Java Sea, HMAS Perth III will lay wreaths at the wreckage site. Her remains have been submerged in Indonesian waters for more than ...

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 ...

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 ...