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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Information on the RSS Orama?
Started 10 February 2010, last revision 11 February 2010 Link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Were there 2 CSS Shenandoahs?
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Walter Adaszynski survived sinking of Athenia
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

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

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

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

Fred Sonneborn sailed in Marine Phoneix, 1952
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

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

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

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 Link

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

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

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

Maria (or Mary) Dick (nee Webster) survived sinking of Athenia
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

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

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

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

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

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

Cook aboard HMS Auraniam; attacked by U-123 under the command of Reinhard Hardegen
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hospital ship Centaur discovered off Queensland coast
Started 20 December 2009, last revision 22 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 the sinking of SS Oronsay
Started 18 December 2009, last revision 18 December 2009

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

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

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

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

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

Witness to Air Raid on the Forth Bridge
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Link

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

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

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

Mrs. Hannah Baird lost in Athenia sinking
Started 08 November 2009, last revision 10 March 2010 Link

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

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

Harriet Barrington killed on the Athenia
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Memorial somewhere in the area to commemorate the settlement of 1826 at Corinella?
Started 17 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

William "Flash" Gordon - Recordings of "Gordon #1 and Gordon #2"
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

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

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

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 Link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Transportng HMAS Pirie's ships bell
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

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

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

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

HMS Implacable
Started 06 September 2009, last revision 06 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

Sad news, Harry Mee. R.I.P.
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

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 Link

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

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 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

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

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

Submarine E 47, 1917 crew: ERA John Curwen Tomlinson
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

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

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

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

Ernest Claude Baster served in Le Tigre, lost in HMS Ellesmere which was sunk by U-boat 1203
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SCHOOL BOOK FOUND 1945: HMAS Warramunga
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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Frank William Tucker died aboard HMS Boadicea in 1944 aged only 19yrs
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

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

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

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

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

Edmund John Lovegrove not on the Canberra crew list at the time of her sinking
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

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Montague Priske, merchant seaman, sail in S.S. Shropshire?
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Declassifying Operation Downfall
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

Arandora Star Crew List?
Started 29 April 2009, last revision 29 April 2009

HMS Ladybird
Started 29 April 2009, last revision 29 April 2009 Link

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

Documentary about the ship wreck in Tobruk area?
Started 29 April 2009, last revision 29 April 2009 Link

Survivors of HMS Boadicea
Started 26 April 2009, last revision 26 April 2009

Armed Guard WWII tankers SS SS Bear Paw, and the SS Balls Bluff
Started 26 April 2009, last revision 26 April 2009 Link

Why No VC for HMS Rawalpindi Commander, Captain Kennedy?
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

Film starring Van Heflin, who portrayed a German Naval Captain?
Started 18 April 2009, last revision 18 April 2009

Bruce Petty author of "At War in the Pacific" and LCI(G)440
Started 18 April 2009, last revision 18 April 2009 Link

HMS Culver - Harold (Reginald) Holt
Started 18 April 2009, last revision 19 April 2009

Dominick Maurone, Sr., navy veteran of WW2, served aboard the LCI(G)440
Started 12 April 2009, last revision 12 April 2009 Link

A question about Commander Warwick Bracegirdle?
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

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 Link

Military Vehicle Collectors Australia, MVCA, have a website and forum
Started 05 April 2009, last revision 05 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

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

Frank Webb, served as torpedo instructor on the Repulse when she was sunk and survived
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 24 March 2009

Clemson Class Destroyers - Pictures from 1920's
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 24 March 2009 Link

Question on Warship Alarm: Actions Stations and General Quarters
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 24 March 2009

Woody Woodhall autobiography (Soldier Sailor and Airman Too) Battle of Malta
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 24 March 2009 Link

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

Climbing Croagh Patrick
Started 24 March 2009, last revision 24 March 2009 Link

Alexander Laing died on the Alcantara
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

Athenia records for Ms. Davina Curtis
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

Agnes McFarlane who we believe was killed with her daughter Gladys on the Athenia
Started 18 March 2009, last revision 18 March 2009 Link

Harold Winfield Hamm, Jr aboard Mugford during attack on Pearl Harbor
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 18 March 2009 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

Francesco Fortunata Gentile served as cook in SS Ramillies
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

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

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

Donald C. Mayer served in USS Gyatt DD712/DDC 1
Started 08 March 2009, last revision 08 March 2009 Link

Bump in the Road
Started 08 March 2009, last revision 08 March 2009

Is there a memorial for victims of the Bari Raid?
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

Searching for HMS X5 for the past 35 years in Arctic Norway
Started 02 March 2009, last revision 02 March 2009

Athenia passengers: George Bihun (age 16),William Bihun (age 14),Walter Bihun (age 12)
Started 02 March 2009, last revision 08 March 2009 Link

Searching for WW1 hospital ship
Started 21 February 2009, last revision 02 March 2009

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 Link

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

Passenger on SS Letitia 2
Started 21 February 2009, last revision 21 February 2009 Link

Rachel Adair McBride Lamont and Alexander Lamont survived sinking of Athenia
Started 20 February 2009, last revision 20 February 2009

Lona Marie (nee Attfield) Manning 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

Did Cammel Laird have a factory in Coventry during WW1?
Started 13 February 2009, last revision 13 February 2009 Link

Margaret Gilmore Chief Petty Officer, Royal NZ Women's Naval Service
Started 13 February 2009, last revision 14 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

Tie pin with replica of Merchant Navy Officers' Cap Badge
Started 06 February 2009, last revision 07 February 2009 Link

HMAS Huon naval base at Hobart
Started 06 February 2009, last revision 06 February 2009

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 Link

Naval illustrator looking for data on 5 Australian cruisers
Started 06 February 2009, last revision 06 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

Identification cards from the ship Athenia
Started 31 January 2009, last revision 17 February 2009

Hospital ship St David sunk on 24th. of January 1944, two days after the Anzio landings 
Started 31 January 2009, last revision 31 January 2009 Link

William Humphries in sail training ship. Tingira, 1912 - 1913
Started 28 January 2009, last revision 02 February 2009

HMS Rawalpindi
Started 28 January 2009, last revision 03 June 2009 Link

Lost when S.S. Drina was torpedoed
Started 28 January 2009, last revision 17 October 2009

Captain Cook's crew on the Third Voyage
Started 28 January 2009, last revision 02 February 2009 Link

Late father was a chef on board the Oronsay
Started 28 January 2009, last revision 08 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 21 January 2009 Link

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

HMAS Gordon—formerly HMVS Gordon
Started 19 January 2009, last revision 20 October 2009 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

Descendant of Admiral Morseby
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

Grandfather, David Don, was on the SS Athenia when it was torpedoed
Started 14 January 2009, last revision 14 January 2009

John Joseph O'Malley lost his life in USS Mt. Hood 10 NOV 1944
Started 14 January 2009, last revision 14 January 2009 Link

Cloche du Graf Spee
Started 14 January 2009, last revision 14 January 2009

HMAS Sydney Commission of Inquiry
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

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

Did Arthur Holmes, a British Royal Navy reservist, serve in HMAS Sydney?
Started 06 January 2009, last revision 22 January 2009 Link

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

William Joyce alias Lord Haw-Haw not Sir Percival Hawley
Started 04 January 2009, last revision 04 January 2009 Link

Rear Admiral Tanaka
Started 04 January 2009, last revision 04 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

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

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

4th Graf Spee 1939 Bell?
Started 29 December 2008, last revision 29 December 2008 Link

Passenger list for S.S. Goya at the National Archives of Australia
Started 29 December 2008, last revision 29 December 2008

Capt I E G Goldsworthy
Started 29 December 2008, last revision 29 December 2008 Link

Kevin Hobbs served in the RAN during WW2
Started 29 December 2008, last revision 03 January 2009

Peter Nelson Bekusch and John Nelson Bekusch survived sinking of Athenia
Started 29 December 2008, last revision 29 December 2008 Link

Health
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

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

Convoyweb To Mac Gregory
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

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

Relieved that you are still with us!!! Thank you to Jayne!
Started 19 December 2008, last revision 20 December 2008

That lastest "Bump"
Started 13 December 2008, last revision 13 December 2008 Link

Book: 1942, Australia’s Greatest Peril
Started 13 December 2008, last revision 13 December 2008

Sydney John Gibbins, Aircraftman 1st Class, served in HMS Courageous
Started 13 December 2008, last revision 13 December 2008 Link

George Hollaway/Tanner server in Empire Mersey and in Empire Whale
Started 13 December 2008, last revision 13 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

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

Barbara Bailey, Athenia survivor
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

Pat Gillon was in the SS North Britain
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

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

John Eric Jenkins sailor who went down with the Caledonian Monarch
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

HMAS Canberra before WW2
Started 21 November 2008, last revision 21 November 2008 Link

William Littleton served in HMS Boadicea
Started 21 November 2008, last revision 21 November 2008

William Edward SMITH NX45070
Started 19 November 2008, last revision 19 November 2008 Link

John Moresby's plaque in Holy Trinity Church, Fareham
Started 19 November 2008, last revision 19 November 2008

Any lines / plans of Seeadler that would be useful to a modeller?
Started 18 November 2008, last revision 18 November 2008 Link

Ashtray with a ship and underneath is the name “Canberra"
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

Picture of HMS Mourne K261
Started 18 November 2008, last revision 18 November 2008

T Price, Ordinary Seaman lost his life in sinking of Voltaire
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

Able Seaman James Thomson served in SS Baron Newlands?
Started 18 November 2008, last revision 18 November 2008 Link

Submarine I-401, largest of WWII submarines
Started 09 November 2008, last revision 09 November 2008

S S Wilrilda Hospital ship
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

George Wormald, lost in sinking Empire Lake 15 July 1943 - Looking for survivors of SS Empire Lake
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

Adm Ortoli, former CO of FSS SURCOUF (1940 – 1941)
Started 30 October 2008, last revision 30 October 2008 Link

Isabel MacDonald (nee Barr) and Ronald Hugh Livingston MacDonald survived the sinking Athenia
Started 30 October 2008, last revision 30 October 2008

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

Wreck of the Rewa
Started 27 October 2008, last revision 27 October 2008

Air purification of Subs in WW1
Started 27 October 2008, last revision 27 October 2008 Link

Manifest for the passengers that boarded the S.S. Athenia in 1939?
Started 27 October 2008, last revision 27 October 2008

Warning! Warning! Strange ships entering the harbor!
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 October 2008 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

M.V. Petite Manaen
Started 18 October 2008, last revision 18 October 2008

Survivor of Boadicea
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

Alexander Kerr served in hospital carrier ship St David when she went down
Started 28 September 2008, last revision 28 September 2008 Link

German U-Boat U9
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

Population for Albany at the time the US Great White Fleet visited in 1908?
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

Queenscliffe Historical Museum presentation
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

Sinking of the Rodger B Taney
Started 11 September 2008, last revision 11 September 2008

Stanley Broucher served in SS RAMILLIES
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

Information about the crew the sunk ship Doggerbank (Speybank)
Started 01 September 2008, last revision 01 September 2008 Link

William Pringle was killed on the Rawalpindi
Started 01 September 2008, last revision 01 September 2008

George Phillips, HMS Hermes 9
Started 01 September 2008, last revision 01 September 2008 Link

Royal British Legion Standard, Central Brittany Branch.at 2008 Lancastia ceremony - correction
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

Story of the Athenia, its victims and survivors, could work well as a documentary
Started 30 August 2008, last revision 30 August 2008

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 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

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

Tommy McLaughlin served on Athenia
Started 29 August 2008, last revision 29 August 2008

Ballarat Courier coverage: Cadets ceremony and Great White Fleet Presentaion
Started 27 August 2008, last revision 27 August 2008 Link

Question about one of your sources about CSS Alabama and Captain Weaver
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

Descendant of Admiral Morseby
Started 06 August 2008, last revision 07 August 2008

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 Link

How does the Hawker attach to the catapult cradle?
Started 05 August 2008, last revision 05 August 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

Rob Lee was Master of Dunedin Star when she went aground on the Skeleton Coast
Started 23 July 2008, last revision 23 July 2008 Link

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

SS Oronsay
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

Robert "Zack" Lardner, the  IRON GATE mission, (or the Danube Mission)
Started 15 July 2008, last revision 17 July 2008 Link

Commanding Officers of USS Missouri?
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

Henry Caleb Cameron Martin and HMT Sibajak

Started 21 June 2008, last revision 09 September 2008 Link

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

HMS Euryalus of the 4 funnel Cressy Class cruisers in the RN
Started 21 June 2008, last revision 21 June 2008 Link

Torpedo attack and sinking of the French Ship De-La-Salle
Started 21 June 2008, last revision 21 June 2008

Canadians who served in Voltaire
Started 21 June 2008, last revision 21 June 2008 Link

Blockade Runners: Heinz Kostka of Ramses. Fritz Sonnemann of Doggerbank and Charlotte Schliemann
Started 15 June 2008, last revision 10 March 2010

Wooden hammer/mallet which was used at the launching of the Athenia
Started 14 June 2008, last revision 14 June 2008 Link

John Cameron served in HMS SARDOYNX
Started 09 June 2008, last revision 09 June 2008

Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby
Started 09 June 2008, last revision 15 June 2008 Link

John Burns, Arctic Convoy Veteran, Edinburgh, last journey down Royal Mile
Started 08 June 2008, last revision 08 June 2008

Exeter and Graf Spee
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

Gallipoli Hospital Ship Maheno
Started 08 June 2008, last revision 14 June 2008 Link

Lieut. R.V. Williams, MRNVR, was the Gunnery Officer & Instructor to HMS Pelandok
Started 08 June 2008, last revision 08 June 2008

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 Link

Linda Dalton survived sinking of Athenia
Started 03 May 2008, last revision 09 June 2008

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Link

Fred Shepherd, whom died amongst the disaster of the Lancastria
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

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

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

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

Petty Officer Francis Richard EVANS, born 1906, served in H.M.A.S. Sydney
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

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

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

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 Link

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

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

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

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

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

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

Arthur and Lily Moses, were aboard the Athenia when she was torpedoed
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

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

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 Link

U-192
Started 27 January 2008, last revision 27 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

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

Jack 'Johnno' Johnson aboard Ladybird
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

Edward John Wells (Ted), lost in Curacoa
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

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

H.M.S. Asia during the Battle of Navarino
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Crew list of the Ajax at the time of the battle of the River Plate
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

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

Graf Spee and the Battle of the River Plate
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

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

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

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

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

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 Link

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

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

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

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

A M A Thomson lost in HMS Dasher
Started 23 October 2007, last revision 08 September 2009 Link

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

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

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

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

Leslie John Holder, Radio Operator on duty who received the SOS from the ATHENIA after being torpedoed
Started 04 October 2007, last revision 14 January 2009 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bruce Webster, picture, can anyone recognise the other four faces and can give them a name?
Started 22 September 2007, last revision 28 December 2009

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

Berta Rapp, Osias Rapp were survivors of the sinking of the 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

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

From USA
Started 06 September 2007, last revision 06 January 2009

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

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

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

Royce L. "Goggy" Gross, USS Seawolf
Started 19 August 2007, last revision 09 June 2008 Link

Leslie Mushins' WWII service
Started 19 August 2007, last revision 18 October 2008

The "GOYA" Ship
Started 19 August 2007, last revision 14 June 2008 Link

HMAS Sydney name of a sailor
Started 19 August 2007, last revision 17 July 2008

Sam Hiller died on the 4th January 2009 aged 87
Started 19 August 2007, last revision 14 January 2009 Link

Decorations for engine room personnel?  HMAS Quiberon night action in the Mediterranean 1st. and 2nd. of December 1942
Started 19 August 2007, last revision 23 July 2008

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


Started 12 August 2007, last revision 12 August 2007

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 Link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Casualty list of HMS Rawalpindi?
Started 22 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

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

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 Link

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


Started 21 July 2007, last revision 21 July 2007 Link

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

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

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

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

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

HMS Orama 2
Started 03 July 2007, last revision 21 February 2009 Link

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

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

Roger Coward, author of Sailors in Cages
Started 01 July 2007, last revision 01 July 2007

Battle of Surigao Strait
Started 01 July 2007, last revision 01 July 2007 Link

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

Correction: SS Volendam was torpedoed [possibly whilst carrying British children to Canada] but clearly wasn't sunk
Started 18 June 2007, last revision 07 October 2008 Link

Angus Macpherson lost in Athenia?
Started 18 June 2007, last revision 18 June 2007

SS Baron Newlands and the trek of the crew to Freetown
Started 17 June 2007, last revision 17 June 2007 Link

HMAS Westralia
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 16 June 2007

USS Canberra's bell
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 16 June 2007 Link

Count von Luckner did not win The Blue Max
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 16 June 2007

Thanks
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 16 June 2007 Link

Athenia survivor (originally evacuated to Scotland) in NYC
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 19 June 2007

Keith Hunter trained on board the HMAS Vengeance on the Royal Visit 1954
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 16 June 2007 Link

Jack McCabe (William John McCabe) lost his life onboard the SS Bengorehead  May 9th 1941, Convoy OB-318
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 16 June 2007

Les(lie) George Williams was a steward or second steward on Voltaire
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 16 June 2007 Link

Alice Apers, Florence Arthur and cousin Laura Apers survived the sinking of Athenia
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 16 June 2007

Wilfred Ronald Sidney Baverstock lost in SS Bristol City sunk from Convoy ONS 5
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 16 June 2007 Link

Caption on the map (The Shenandoah voyage map)?
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 16 June 2007

CSS Shenandoah, The William Thompson, and Sophia Thornton
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 16 June 2007 Link

Diving near Empire Gold and Cyrush H. McCormick
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 16 June 2007

3D Rendering of HMAS Australia (I), 1913 - 1924
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 16 June 2007 Link

Meeting Captain F.A.J. Downer in 1968
Started 16 June 2007, last revision 16 June 2007

Hans Gunni Andersen was on board the Ramses and picked up by the HMAS Adelaide, November 1942
Started 14 June 2007, last revision 14 June 2007 Link

HMS Cavalier Association's new Casualty Database
Started 19 May 2007, last revision 19 May 2007

Tracing My father who was seconded to the RAN when WW2 was declared, in Sept 1939
Started 19 May 2007, last revision 19 May 2007 Link

Researching family war story about an unknown ship being sunk off Cape Borda Kangaroo Island S.A. during WWII
Started 19 May 2007, last revision 19 May 2007

How can we get a visit from a Naval Ship in Adelaide?
Started 19 May 2007, last revision 19 May 2007 Link

Glasgow Museum of Transport; exhibition of Athenia, contacting survivors
Started 19 May 2007, last revision 19 May 2007

Liberty Ship, the Albert M Boe, converted for use as a fish cannery ship, and renamed Star of Kodiak, sent to the scrapper last February
Started 19 May 2007, last revision 30 April 2009 Link

Father service in Albert B. Cummins and the William P. McArthur Liberty Ships in WWII
Started 19 May 2007, last revision 19 May 2007

George Tidbury survived the sinking of Voltaire, prisoner in Germany till the end of the war
Started 13 May 2007, last revision 13 May 2007 Link

Joseph Henry Warburton served in the Campbell and the Bicester between 1939 and 1945
Started 12 May 2007, last revision 12 May 2007

Second Graf Spee Bell?
Started 12 May 2007, last revision 12 May 2007 Link

Family history research
Started 11 May 2007, last revision 12 May 2007

Major William Neely Mallory, U.S. Army Air Corps. Site of U.S. Army Air Corps plane crash, Southern Italy, Feb. 19, 1945?
Started 11 May 2007, last revision 11 May 2007 Link

Greetings from the 1805 Club
Started 11 May 2007, last revision 21 July 2007

Sealers in New Zealand waters: The Sydney Cove and the General Gates
Started 05 May 2007, last revision 11 May 2007 Link

Master Jeremiah Belt was the Master of HMS St George which was lost off Jutland on Christmas Eve 1811
Started 05 May 2007, last revision 05 May 2007

Ships bell from the Graf Spee or possibly from one of their life boats?
Started 05 May 2007, last revision 11 May 2007 Link

Albert B. Cummins and the William P. McArthur Liberty Ships in WWII
Started 05 May 2007, last revision 05 May 2007

Research for the forthcoming book, "Pacific Fury"
Started 29 April 2007, last revision 29 April 2007 Link

Crew names for Capt Cook's trip to Australia
Started 28 April 2007, last revision 28 April 2007

Wreck in Masons Bay on the south of Stewart Island, New Zealand: victim of C.S.S. Shenandoah?
Started 28 April 2007, last revision 28 April 2007 Link

Any of the crew of the Australian warship HMAS Sydney II (sunk in 1941) was from Manly NSW
Started 28 April 2007, last revision 29 April 2007

Hubert Edward Mitchell, did he server in H.M.A.S Canberra
Started 28 April 2007, last revision 28 April 2007 Link

Family sailed in Marine Phoenix to Australia during 1947
Started 22 April 2007, last revision 22 April 2007

Queries about U.S.S. Chicago in the Battle of Savo Island
Started 22 April 2007, last revision 29 April 2007 Link

Harry Picot, served on the St Theodore and was captured by the Moewe
Started 22 April 2007, last revision 22 April 2007

List of prisoners aboard the Wolf
Started 22 April 2007, last revision 22 April 2007 Link

Marlag un milag nord - survivors of Voltaire who wound up incarcerated there
Started 14 April 2007, last revision 14 April 2007

HMS Campbell; Arctic 1942
Started 14 April 2007, last revision 14 April 2007 Link

Atkinson was serving on SS Ramillies when it was torpedoed and sunk on 8th May, 1941
Started 14 April 2007, last revision 14 April 2007

Battle of Savo Island
Started 14 April 2007, last revision 14 April 2007 Link

Star Spangled Banner
Started 09 April 2007, last revision 09 April 2007

Jack Wells may have been on board the Tuscan Star when it was torpedoed
Started 31 March 2007, last revision 31 March 2007 Link


Started 27 March 2007, last revision 27 March 2007

Passenger aboard the Athenia when it was torpedoed
Started 25 March 2007, last revision 31 March 2007 Link

George F Crowe served on the Voltaire and was killed during the action on 4th April
Started 23 March 2007, last revision 25 March 2007

Len Hiller served on the Voltaire and became a POW
Started 21 March 2007, last revision 22 January 2009 Link

Ensign Hans L Jensen of the Kadashan Bay, was a part of Taffy II, Battle off Samar
Started 21 March 2007, last revision 21 March 2007

Trueman Priestley, a soldier on the Hospital Ship Anglia
Started 21 March 2007, last revision 21 March 2007 Link

William Ford sailed in M/S East Indian
Started 21 March 2007, last revision 21 March 2007

John Campbell (aka Ian Campbell) served on the Veteran on the convoys during WW2
Started 21 March 2007, last revision 10 March 2010 Link

Christopher Rave's Oil painting of Count Felix von Luckner's Seeadler
Started 21 March 2007, last revision 21 March 2007

German Merchant ship SS Derflinger was captured by the British at Port Said in 1914, and used as a troopship, to be renamed HMT Huntsgreen carried wounded from Gallipoli to Alexandria, and then troops back to Gallipoli
Started 15 March 2007, last revision 15 March 2007 Link

Hospital Ship Vita
Started 15 March 2007, last revision 21 March 2007

Harold Johns, better known as Jack Johns, captured by the Seadler, Count Von Luckner
Started 15 March 2007, last revision 15 March 2007 Link

What does H.M.M.S. stand for?
Started 15 March 2007, last revision 15 March 2007

Florrie Treharne, survive the sinking of the Athenia in 1939?
Started 15 March 2007, last revision 15 March 2007 Link

Are there any known links to such great web-sites as yours but for British armed Merchant Navy ships
Started 15 March 2007, last revision 16 March 2007

Jessie Clark, aboard Athenia, and the "curse" of the Clarks
Started 13 March 2007, last revision 13 March 2007 Link

John Robert Spilman served on the Empire Light and died when it got Torpedoed in 1943
Started 10 March 2007, last revision 10 March 2007

Ken Cartwright one of the survivors aboard the Curacoa in her collision with Queen Mary
Started 10 March 2007, last revision 10 March 2007 Link

Crew and or passenger list of Hitachi Maru which was captured by SMS WOLF near the Maldives in September 1917?
Started 05 March 2007, last revision 22 April 2007

Survivor finds plaque memorializing Helen Burrows who died in the sinking of Athenia
Started 05 March 2007, last revision 10 March 2007 Link

Anyone compiling a complete list of prisoners in Wolf?
Started 04 March 2007, last revision 04 March 2007

"To the Sixth Continent" and Alfred Kling who sailed with von Luckner in Seeadler
Started 03 March 2007, last revision 03 March 2007 Link

How strong is the interest in Australia and New Zealand for Felix von Luckner's story?
Started 03 March 2007, last revision 03 March 2007

Longest Lunch in Marysville
Started 03 March 2007, last revision 03 March 2007 Link

Karl Donitz's personal effects at the time of his capture?
Started 03 March 2007, last revision 03 March 2007

Empress of Ireland
Started 03 March 2007, last revision 03 March 2007 Link

Granddad served in the "Seeteufel"
Started 03 March 2007, last revision 03 March 2007

Joe McDonald served in RMS Rangitata
Started 03 March 2007, last revision 03 March 2007 Link

Gentlemen Cordite - The Life Rafts - Matapan
Started 25 February 2007, last revision 25 February 2007

Thomas.B Langhorne worked as a cook on the TSS Nestor
Started 25 February 2007, last revision 05 March 2007 Link

Color photo of the Doolittle Raid take off?
Started 17 February 2007, last revision 17 February 2007

Edith Cavell Memorials
Started 17 February 2007, last revision 17 February 2007 Link

German submarines sailing to Japan in WW2?
Started 17 February 2007, last revision 17 February 2007

Mary Muhr's WW 2 experience in New Zealand and sailing to England from New Zealand in 1945 to marry
Started 14 February 2007, last revision 17 February 2007 Link

Is there a shred of evidence that would buttress the rumors of (submarine) Surcouf's disloyal and treacherous actions
Started 14 February 2007, last revision 15 February 2007

Eugeniusz Kowalski was in the polish navy and may have been captain of Modlin
Started 14 February 2007, last revision 14 February 2007 Link

New look for Ahoy
Started 14 February 2007, last revision 14 February 2007

Hi, Mac- heartiest congratulations on your 85th. birthday - may you have many more
Started 14 February 2007, last revision 15 February 2007 Link

AB Charles -Taffy - Morgan served in HMS Vidette - 1939-1943, HMS Lawford 1943-44 (Sunk on D-Day +1) and the HMS Philante 1944-45
Started 08 February 2007, last revision 10 March 2007

HMAS Shropshire tonnage query, Alan Meade, served on HMAS Shropshire as a Stoker 1944 - 1946
Started 08 February 2007, last revision 08 February 2007 Link

Researching "Marauders of the Sea" and the tanker Weser
Started 08 February 2007, last revision 09 February 2007

Info / pictures of the Gerusalemme taken by William John Fowler who served on the Hospital Ship Gerusalemme as 1st Electrician
Started 05 February 2007, last revision 14 February 2007 Link

Charles Sullivan, a marine on board the HMS Trinidad (not HMS Edinburgh), was killed in the attack
Started 03 February 2007, last revision 08 February 2007

Kormoron (Kormoran) flag made by POW
Started 02 February 2007, last revision 21 May 2009 Link

1969 RANC graduate from Jervis Division
Started 28 January 2007, last revision 02 February 2007

UK Prime Minister Anthony Eden, current UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, and the R.M.S. Rangitata. Recollections  Mary Muhr
Started 28 January 2007, last revision 14 February 2007 Link

Harry L. Hopkins, Roosevelt's chief advisor, played such a large part in influencing the war to a successful conclusion
Started 27 January 2007, last revision 27 January 2007

Naval Historical Society of Australia
Started 27 January 2007, last revision 10 February 2007 Link

Pte Kelty MM, who had lost a leg, & was supposedly torpedoed & rescued from a hospital ship sometime between July & September 1918
Started 27 January 2007, last revision 11 February 2007

A. E. Howell Seaman Coder served on Northern Spray
Started 23 January 2007, last revision 23 January 2007 Link

History of M/V ANTINOÜS, was it the raider WOLF?
Started 21 January 2007, last revision 21 January 2007

Captain Brown, cutlery from Athenia
Started 21 January 2007, last revision 21 January 2007 Link

Books about Convoy RB1
Started 20 January 2007, last revision 20 January 2007

Surviving the Athenia
Started 20 January 2007, last revision 20 January 2007 Link

The story of Valter Nylander, a Finnish sailor who served in Ramses, a POW in Australia during the WW II
Started 15 January 2007, last revision 10 February 2007

Operation Jaywick Memorial to be rebuilt
Started 13 January 2007, last revision 15 January 2007 Link

Santa Marija Convoy - Malta and Operation Pedistal
Started 13 January 2007, last revision 14 January 2007

Roy Hay sailed in HMS Malaya, HMS Snowflake
Started 13 January 2007, last revision 13 January 2007 Link

William Henry Morrow killed in HMAS Canberra at the Battle of Savo Island
Started 13 January 2007, last revision 13 January 2007

James Thomas Newcombe lost in SS North Britain
Started 13 January 2007, last revision 13 January 2007 Link

Margaret Ellen Taylor survived sinking of Athenia - which ship picked her up?
Started 13 January 2007, last revision 12 March 2007

Photo permission for The Convoy, which is a small publication put out by the League of Merchant Mariner Veterans of Canada Inc
Started 10 December 2006, last revision 10 December 2006 Link

Matthew Herbison Marshall served and died on HMS Mourne: a memorial website
Started 10 December 2006, last revision 10 December 2006

Records of New Zealand servicemen and women.
Started 04 December 2006, last revision 04 December 2006 Link

Able seaman Herbert Alfred Quennell survived the sinking of HMS Alcantara in 1916
Started 03 December 2006, last revision 02 September 2007

David Alexander Ross, from Shandwick, Rosshire served on Voltaire
Started 30 November 2006, last revision 14 February 2007 Link

Lt George Jack Hartley, formally Warrant Gunner, HMAS Shropshire
Started 30 November 2006, last revision 30 November 2006

Ocean Liner Virtual Museum website
Started 30 November 2006, last revision 30 November 2006 Link

Reference to the recovery of any bodies from the loss of Athenia?
Started 30 November 2006, last revision 30 November 2006

Heard of the Coastal Artillery Transportation Detachment?
Started 26 November 2006, last revision 26 November 2006 Link

Survived sinking of USS Astoria
Started 26 November 2006, last revision 26 November 2006

Edward Belton survived the sinking of Athenia
Started 26 November 2006, last revision 26 November 2006 Link

Pfalz must have been the ship in question
Started 26 November 2006, last revision 26 November 2006

Albert John Knott, Able seaman and rangefinder lost on Voltaire
Started 26 November 2006, last revision 26 November 2006 Link

Henry Cecil Cansdale lost in Empire Gold
Started 26 November 2006, last revision 22 April 2007

Count Felix
Started 20 November 2006, last revision 20 November 2006 Link

Sto. E A Lindsey lost on submarine E 47, 1917
Started 20 November 2006, last revision 26 November 2006

Remembering Roy. O Lucke, a Patriotic American, in Honour of the Anniversary of his 100th. Birthday, November 7, 2006
Started 08 November 2006, last revision 20 November 2006 Link

John Dodd survivor of Athenia?
Started 05 November 2006, last revision 05 November 2006

Allen Abraham Cornell, a Submariner in the Royal Navy from 1924-1933. He served on L22, L25 and L56
Started 05 November 2006, last revision 04 March 2007 Link

William C. Moresby
Started 04 November 2006, last revision 05 November 2006

SS New York
Started 04 November 2006, last revision 10 February 2007 Link

10/06/1917 a soldier was buried off the ship "Shropshire
Started 31 October 2006, last revision 26 November 2006

HELP PLEASE Able Seaman Ernest Ward also served on HMS Curacoa and was also a survivor
Started 31 October 2006, last revision 31 October 2006 Link

Jack. (John Whitehead) was a Merchant Service engineer during WW2 and was torpedoed on Nebraska
Started 31 October 2006, last revision 31 October 2006

Envelopes sent from the Shropshire in Tokyo Bay in September 1945
Started 31 October 2006, last revision 31 October 2006 Link

Blog of expedition to Namibia which will visit where Dunedin Star was beached
Started 31 October 2006, last revision 05 March 2007

Father was aboard Dunedin Star when it ran aground he was a gunner aboard the ship
Started 31 October 2006, last revision 31 October 2006 Link

Arnold Henry Jones USMC, R.I.P
Started 31 October 2006, last revision 10 February 2007

Swakopmund Namibia Guesthouse: Dunedin Star
Started 13 October 2006, last revision 13 October 2006 Link

Convict Ship Scarborough
Started 13 October 2006, last revision 15 October 2006

Leading Seaman Ivor Bruce CARTRIDGE lost in HMS Effingham
Started 13 October 2006, last revision 31 October 2006 Link

Ordnance Artificer IV John. H. Rimmer 23535 served aboard HMAS Canberra
Started 04 October 2006, last revision 04 October 2006

USS CANBERRA BELL DEDICATION
Started 04 October 2006, last revision 19 June 2007 Link

Basil David O'Donoghue who lost his life on the SS Ceramic in Dec 1942
Started 04 October 2006, last revision 08 February 2007

Searching for information and pictures for documentary about the British at Stalag VIIIB
Started 03 October 2006, last revision 03 October 2006 Link

Convict ships: Researching a convict who departed on the Asia 2 Departed England 9 August 1823 arrived Van Diemen's Land 19 January 1824
Started 03 October 2006, last revision 13 October 2006

Claims that Felix von Luckner as having spent time as a spy and saboteur?
Started 29 September 2006, last revision 29 September 2006 Link

HMHS Plassy, a hospital ship based in the Orkneys in WW1
Started 29 September 2006, last revision 11 February 2007

Interviews with Athenia survivors for an article honoring the 65th anniversary
Started 29 September 2006, last revision 29 September 2006 Link

William Turner was a merchant seaman, a steward on this SS Ramillies and he was lost presumed drowned on 8th May 1941
Started 24 September 2006, last revision 10 March 2010

Researching a book on the Pacific War
Started 24 September 2006, last revision 29 September 2006 Link

Trip to the wreck of the Dunedin Star at the end of November 2006. We are taking the same route as Smuts's expedition who rescued the survivors
Started 24 September 2006, last revision 24 September 2006

Memorial event being held in Wrexham, north Wales, the sinking of HMS Veteran in 1942
Started 23 September 2006, last revision 23 September 2006 Link

The ship Bornholm, did she get her name from Island Bornholm in the Baltic Sea? 
Started 23 September 2006, last revision 23 September 2006

HMHS Gerusalemme
Started 23 September 2006, last revision 10 March 2010 Link

Also aboard Rangitata in the convoy HX-348
Started 23 September 2006, last revision 29 September 2006

HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse Survivors Association: Stopping the growing trend in diving wrecks that have been classified as maritime war graves
Started 23 September 2006, last revision 23 September 2006 Link

Victoria Falls, the Congo River and Zambezi River 
Started 23 September 2006, last revision 23 September 2006

Identifying the wreck of HMS E-47
Started 16 September 2006, last revision 16 September 2006 Link

Floyd Russell served aboard the USS Mugford
Started 15 September 2006, last revision 14 February 2009

Bruce Loxton R.I.P. Midshipman on the bridge of Canberra at the Battle of Savo Island. Author of  "The Shame of Savo: Anatomy of a Naval Disaster"
Started 08 September 2006, last revision 22 October 2006 Link

Father was in USS Mugford at Battle of Savo Island
Started 06 September 2006, last revision 11 February 2007

Elmer Smith, was also lost at the Battle of Savo Island, on the Heavy Cruiser Vincennes (CA-44)
Started 27 August 2006, last revision 27 August 2006 Link

John Gaston, Stoker 2nd Class, killed in HMAS Canberra
Started 26 August 2006, last revision 27 August 2006

Researching the Moresby family re: Admiral Fairfax Moresby
Started 25 August 2006, last revision 15 October 2006 Link

William Musgrave who was sadly killed when Voltaire was torpedoed
Started 25 August 2006, last revision 25 August 2006

Peter Costello, aged 19, lost in HMS Mourne
Started 25 August 2006, last revision 06 September 2006 Link

W. C. Bowles killed whilst serving on the HMS Voltaire 09th April 1941
Started 22 August 2006, last revision 31 August 2006

Captain Walter John Manley, who was the captain of the Lorient on May 4, 1943, lost in in Convoy ONS 5
Started 22 August 2006, last revision 27 June 2008 Link

Elwood & Alma MacPherson, survived the sinking of the Athenia
Started 21 August 2006, last revision 21 August 2006

SS Oronsay
Started 21 August 2006, last revision 21 August 2006 Link

Henry Vogwell was a stoker onboard HMS Edinburgh
Started 21 August 2006, last revision 21 August 2006

Edward Spence who was a Royal Navy DEMS gunner on SS Ramilles, looking for information
Started 21 August 2006, last revision 10 February 2007 Link

Bernard Nowell was lost when Veteran was sunk
Started 06 August 2006, last revision 06 August 2006

"The Navy's Here" book by Willi Frischauer
Started 05 August 2006, last revision 05 August 2006 Link

Who would have the rights to a movie about the voyage of the Seeadler?
Started 05 August 2006, last revision 05 August 2006

Marine Phoenix was not a liberty ship
Started 30 July 2006, last revision 30 July 2006 Link

Able Seaman William ( Bill ) Patten
Started 30 July 2006, last revision 20 January 2007

Searching for information on Lancastria and the other ships involved in the St Nazaire evacuation, memoirs of Eskdale W. Thornton
Started 25 July 2006, last revision 05 August 2006 Link

John Easton and mother, Lily Easton, aboard Athenia when sunk.
Started 24 July 2006, last revision 04 March 2007

John Armstrong, a stoker 1st Class, died on the HMS Mourne
Started 24 July 2006, last revision 05 August 2006 Link

Did CSS Florida ever coal at the Virgin Islands
Started 24 July 2006, last revision 04 March 2007

Eric Falk, survivor of Kormoron which sunk Sydney
Started 24 July 2006, last revision 24 July 2006 Link

Looking for crew list and any other info on Dutch ships sank at java during WWII
Started 24 July 2006, last revision 24 July 2006

Owen McGorrin went down with the Lancastria 17th June 1940
Started 15 July 2006, last revision 15 July 2006 Link

Father sailed in SS Oronsay?
Started 15 July 2006, last revision 10 March 2010

Repair/depot ships in the Royal Navy
Started 14 July 2006, last revision 14 July 2006 Link

B.BATESON Assistant Steward NAP (MN) who served on HMS Voltaire
Started 14 July 2006, last revision 14 July 2006

Bernice Jansen, passenger on the Athenia
Started 09 July 2006, last revision 24 July 2006 Link

Count von Luckner, Seeteufel, and Lowell Thomas
Started 09 July 2006, last revision 09 July 2006

Alan Guard was in the UGS 40 convoy
Started 01 July 2006, last revision 01 July 2006 Link

April 1945, aboard Rangitata in the convoy CU-45
Started 01 July 2006, last revision 19 April 2009

Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe by James D. Bullock
Started 01 July 2006, last revision 01 July 2006 Link

Reuben Whitaker
Started 23 June 2006, last revision 23 June 2006

Harry Hughes, flight engineer in Sunderland T 9045
Started 21 June 2006, last revision 21 June 2006 Link

Yorktown on which my father in law was cook at the time of her sinking
Started 16 June 2006, last revision 16 June 2006

Chief Petty Officer Mc Neir in Voltaire?
Started 14 June 2006, last revision 14 June 2006 Link

Athenia survivor, Marianne Ostermann. Now she is Marian Kaye
Started 14 June 2006, last revision 01 July 2006

Captain W.P.Boylan, master of SS Yorktown, Convoy RB1
Started 14 June 2006, last revision 16 June 2006 Link

June 1927 outbound passenger list of the Athenia
Started 29 May 2006, last revision 01 July 2006

Information about the British (or Dutch?) tugboat Bandit. It was involved in rescuing the SS Eros which was torpedoed by U-48 on June 7, 1940
Started 29 May 2006, last revision 29 May 2006 Link

John Melbourne Bennett joined the Merchant Navy in 1915
Started 29 May 2006, last revision 29 May 2006

Releasing information about Welfreighter and the typhoon that scattered the US fleet off the eastern Phillipines on Sunday 17th December 1944
Started 29 May 2006, last revision 29 May 2006 Link

Think my granddad sailed the boat which saved survivors of the Athenia
Started 29 May 2006, last revision 01 July 2006

Project concerning the voyage of the Sea Eagle
Started 16 May 2006, last revision 16 May 2006 Link

Looking for the wreck of Centaur
Started 16 May 2006, last revision 16 May 2006

Cammel Laird's ship building history
Started 12 May 2006, last revision 04 March 2007 Link

Henry (Harry) Harper in Hospital Ship Leinster
Started 12 May 2006, last revision 11 February 2007

My Father shared digs with Frank
Started 12 May 2006, last revision 12 May 2006 Link

Lieutenant Richard Pries, prize or boarding officer in Seeadler
Started 12 May 2006, last revision 12 May 2006

Photo of Commander W H Norman. RN who captained HMVS Victoria in the Colonial Navy of the State of Victoria
Started 06 May 2006, last revision 06 May 2006 Link

Raymond L Gover, was a survivor of the HMS Mourne that was sunk by U-767
Started 06 May 2006, last revision 06 May 2006

Father loaded onto the Kota Baru at Seattle in about March 1945
Started 28 April 2006, last revision 28 April 2006 Link

Able Seaman George Pringle Law of Empire Whale
Started 28 April 2006, last revision 25 August 2006

Father lost at sea in Empire Whale attack
Started 28 April 2006, last revision 04 March 2007 Link

William Thomas Snow BEM  of Li Wo
Started 28 April 2006, last revision 30 April 2006

Bryn Mussared served in HMAS Canberra
Started 28 April 2006, last revision 14 July 2006 Link

Horace L. Lindsey went down with the Jacksonville
Started 27 April 2006, last revision 27 April 2006

Trying to find some photos of the German minelayer/ auxiliary cruiser, Nordlinger
Started 27 April 2006, last revision 27 April 2006 Link

Captain E C Kennedy of HMS Rawalpindi was not awarded the Victoria Cross
Started 24 April 2006, last revision 28 April 2006

Screenwriter enchanted by the story of the German Raider Wolf
Started 19 April 2006, last revision 19 April 2006 Link

Oropesa Float used in minesweeping operations in WW2 found in Bermuda
Started 17 April 2006, last revision 17 April 2006

Stephen Clinton was killed Nov. 10, 1944 on the USS Mount Hood
Started 17 April 2006, last revision 17 April 2006 Link

Book about the life of HMS Veteran, 'The Proudest of Her Line'
Started 17 April 2006, last revision 21 June 2006

Sergeant Richard Coleman, was killed in the Solomon Islands, on the Achilles
Started 16 April 2006, last revision 16 April 2006 Link

My father's aunts perished on Athenia
Started 16 April 2006, last revision 10 February 2007

von Luckner Photo With Signature
Started 16 April 2006, last revision 16 April 2006 Link

D.N.Rafalovich, of Hr.Ms.de Ruyter, who survived as a POW and died December 1998
Started 16 April 2006, last revision 16 April 2006

Leading Seamen McGurty who was on the Gloster Castle when it was sunk
Started 15 April 2006, last revision 27 March 2007 Link

Olden Hobbs, who was lost on the USS Jarvis
Started 15 April 2006, last revision 16 April 2006

George F Crowe served on the Voltaire and was killed during the action on 4th April
Started 15 April 2006, last revision 21 March 2007 Link

HMS Pathfinder, the first ship to be sunk in WW1 (by the U-21)
Started 15 April 2006, last revision 22 July 2007

Frank Clifton Bossard
Started 14 April 2006, last revision 17 April 2006 Link

Father served on HMS Boadicea
Started 14 April 2006, last revision 05 March 2007

Rewrite and correction "HM Submarine Vandal goes missing on the 24th. of February 1943. Wreck is found in 1994, and dived on in 2003"
Started 05 April 2006, last revision 05 April 2006 Link

Find information about Port Line Ship Port Townsville (1)
Started 05 April 2006, last revision 16 April 2006

Names of all the decorations that Von Luckner was awarded?
Started 05 April 2006, last revision 16 April 2006 Link

Website about the loss of HMAS Sydney
Started 26 March 2006, last revision 26 March 2006

Do you have any info on the prisoners on the Wolf or the passengers on the Mantunga?
Started 24 March 2006, last revision 05 April 2006 Link

Kurzignale, used on U-boats, and the history of the Enigma cipher machine and an award winning Enigma simulator
Started 21 March 2006, last revision 22 March 2006

Most massive single air attack launched against a Merchant ship convoy in WWII.
Started 21 March 2006, last revision 21 March 2006 Link

Aboard DE RUYTER in the Java Sea Battle were at least three U. S. Navy personnel were aboard temporary duty for liaison and communications purposes
Started 16 March 2006, last revision 16 March 2006

Cadet-Midshipman (U.S.M.M.C.C.) aboard the Marine Phoenix
Started 15 March 2006, last revision 20 January 2007 Link

Tony Slevin : Convoy RB 1 and Southland
Started 15 March 2006, last revision 04 March 2007

Capt A.Quail fought in WW2 in the british merchant navy
Started 15 March 2006, last revision 01 July 2006 Link

Research about my uncle that was in the Merchant Navy during the second world
Started 15 March 2006, last revision 15 March 2006

Robert M. Leonard, was a Royal Navy Reserve engineering officer who went on active duty in the UK at the beginning of WWI
Started 15 March 2006, last revision 10 February 2007 Link

Father / Grandfather was Petty Officer Telegraphist on the Oribi, in Convoy ONS5
Started 06 March 2006, last revision 15 March 2006

Correction: U-161 not involved with the sinking of SS Ario.
Started 04 March 2006, last revision 22 March 2006 Link

USS Canberra plaque
Started 04 March 2006, last revision 04 March 2006

Anthony Murray, a 'donkeyman' (stoker) in HMS Voltaire
Started 04 March 2006, last revision 04 March 2006 Link

Information about Auxiliary Hospital Ship "Anglia for book regarding 59 names on a local World War 1 Memorial in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, UK
Started 04 March 2006, last revision 18 June 2007

Was Voltaire, like so many AMC's, just outgunned/outranged?
Started 19 February 2006, last revision 19 February 2006 Link

CSS Rappahannock
Started 18 February 2006, last revision 18 February 2006

Trip through the Solomon Islands and the battle sites of the early years of WW2
Started 18 February 2006, last revision 18 February 2006 Link

Harold Davis was lost on HMS Juno in 1941
Started 17 February 2006, last revision 19 February 2006

Sylvester White, the Chief Petty Officer went down with HMS Boadicea
Started 08 February 2006, last revision 17 February 2006 Link

HMS Lively
Started 05 February 2006, last revision 16 April 2006

Finding a family friend billeted at McIntyre Air Base
Started 04 February 2006, last revision 04 February 2006 Link

John & Nigel McKinnon were members of the crew of SS Athenia when it was sunk in 1939
Started 29 January 2006, last revision 01 July 2006

Telegram to say her husband had been killed in action
Started 24 January 2006, last revision 11 January 2007 Link

Searching for HMAS Pirie's bell
Started 23 January 2006, last revision 23 January 2006

Crew members from Athenia, who died when she was sunk, to become the first Merchant Ship casuality of WW2
Started 21 January 2006, last revision 01 July 2006 Link

Battle of Tsushima Straits 1905
Started 21 January 2006, last revision 05 February 2006

From Marine Phoenix passenger in 1947
Started 20 January 2006, last revision 10 February 2007 Link

Trying to find out more information about the sinking of the Oronsay and the fate of her survivors
Started 19 January 2006, last revision 19 January 2006

Official signals from the Navy about the impending and then actual end of hostilities against Japan
Started 19 January 2006, last revision 19 January 2006 Link

Producing a drama documentary about the story of the Dunedin Star
Started 19 January 2006, last revision 19 January 2006

Athenia passenger list 1927?
Started 19 January 2006, last revision 01 July 2006 Link

WW1 Hospital Ship, "Devanka" actual spelling is "DEVANHA"
Started 19 January 2006, last revision 11 February 2007

 Angus Cameron Mc Intyre of  Dunedin Star
Started 12 January 2006, last revision 12 January 2006 Link

Tony Parsons a pilot who ditched in the North Sea to finally wind up in the same POW camp as the Voltaire survivors
Started 11 January 2006, last revision 20 January 2007

George Ebenezer KNIGHT was aboard the H.S."ANGLIA" when it was sunk
Started 10 January 2006, last revision 11 February 2007 Link

Correcting our Kursk article
Started 10 January 2006, last revision 04 March 2007

HMS Voltaire Roll Of Honor
Started 09 January 2006, last revision 20 November 2006 Link

About C. De Eliaguirre Wreck and Wolf
Started 05 January 2006, last revision 04 March 2007

Royal Dutch Navy in Australia, van Galen
Started 04 January 2006, last revision 04 January 2006 Link

Any living survivors of SS Athenia's sinking in 1939?
Started 13 December 2005, last revision 01 July 2006

Image of UC 5 postcard
Started 13 December 2005, last revision 03 January 2009 Link

Ambulance member who went down with the Centaur
Started 13 December 2005, last revision 11 February 2007

Descended from Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby
Started 13 December 2005, last revision 13 December 2005 Link

Quarterly news letter of the Canberra/ Shropshire Association, The Shropshire Times
Started 02 December 2005, last revision 15 July 2006

Julia Wotten Scott, survivor on the Athenia at time of sinking
Started 02 December 2005, last revision 01 July 2006 Link

Rear Admiral Gerald Muirhead-Gould
Started 02 December 2005, last revision 04 December 2005

Robert Alan Laws was the radar officer on HMS Trindad at the time when she torpedoed herself
Started 29 November 2005, last revision 29 November 2005 Link

German cruiser wreck  at Rabaul?
Started 26 November 2005, last revision 02 December 2005

John (Aka Jack) McCormick who was was lost with HMS Veteran in september 1942
Started 26 November 2005, last revision 26 November 2005 Link

RMS Oronsay (I), Doing some research
Started 21 November 2005, last revision 22 November 2005

Iron Cross 2nd class to a radio man on the marauder Greif
Started 21 November 2005, last revision 21 November 2005 Link

Roy Coote involved when Japanese subs that invaded Sydney harbour
Started 21 November 2005, last revision 21 November 2005

Term paper on Captain Rogge and his ship, the raider Atlantis
Started 21 November 2005, last revision 21 November 2005 Link

Book for older children about H.M.A.S. Canberra
Started 20 November 2005, last revision 21 November 2005

Is Janes Fighting Ships 1941 by Sampson Low, Marston & Co Naval publishers of any Historical Value?
Started 20 November 2005, last revision 20 November 2005 Link

Leading Seaman Robert Terry - 10955 served in Canberra
Started 20 November 2005, last revision 03 December 2005

Philip Stevens, who was Chief Surveyor of Customs, Liverpool 1863
Started 20 November 2005, last revision 21 November 2005 Link

Hospital ship was diverted to pick up survivors from a Royal Navy ship?
Started 06 November 2005, last revision 25 November 2005

Chief Engineer  SS EL Costan, Ed "Red" Clark is looking for any shipmates. Especially on the Iceland run.
Started 06 November 2005, last revision 06 November 2005 Link

David McLean survived H.M.S. Voltaire, spent the rest of the war in a prisoner of war camp - Stalag VIIIb
Started 31 October 2005, last revision 25 July 2009

Lt Cdr William Davies, killed on HMS Voltaire in April 1941
Started 31 October 2005, last revision 31 October 2005 Link

Eric Lloyd was lost on HMS Gould on 1st March 1944, Albert Pattinson was on HMS Mourne when it went down on 15th June 1944 
Started 31 October 2005, last revision 31 October 2005

Brian Dougherty was an 19 year old gunner on the ship, North Britain, and was lost when it went down
Started 30 October 2005, last revision 30 October 2005 Link

Gordon Hamilton was also connected with HMS Boadicea and there is a suggestion that he was a survivor of the sinking
Started 27 October 2005, last revision 20 January 2007

Beechwood bowl that had a small plaque inscribed “From the Officers and Men of HMA Submarine J2
Started 25 October 2005, last revision 25 October 2005 Link

Visitors guide to Brittany
Started 15 October 2005, last revision 15 October 2005

Count Nicholaus Graf zu Dahna-Schlodien, who so ably captained the German Armed Merchant Raider Moewe in WW1
Started 15 October 2005, last revision 27 October 2005 Link

Parents came from England to Canada in Aug. 1914 onboard the S.S. Scotian
Started 12 October 2005, last revision 15 October 2005

David McLean survivor of H.M.S. Voltaire, spent the rest of the war in a prisoner of war camp - Stalag VIIIb
Started 12 October 2005, last revision 12 October 2005 Link

Ian Collins was being 'ferried' to Tobruk from Alexandria aboard Ladybird
Started 12 October 2005, last revision 20 January 2007

Question about the loss of HMT Lancastria at St Nazaire
Started 12 October 2005, last revision 21 October 2005 Link

Thanks for keeping my Dad's memory alive
Started 06 October 2005, last revision 06 October 2005

John Elliott served onboard the HMS Richard Crofts, minesweeper, out of Lowestoft from about 1942-45
Started 06 October 2005, last revision 06 October 2005 Link

Brother Bob served onboard Captain Class Frigate, HMS Bentley
Started 03 October 2005, last revision 03 October 2005

Mark O'Donnell of the crew who died (8 in total) on the SS Saint Barchan in 1918 off the coast of Northern Ireland
Started 30 September 2005, last revision 21 October 2005 Link

Great great grandson of Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes, CSN
Started 28 September 2005, last revision 28 September 2005

Interested in history of HMAS Creswell sail training dinghy built around 1920 in Moruya and used at Creswell for cadet training
Started 27 September 2005, last revision 04 March 2007 Link

William Palmer survived the sinking of HMS Voltaire to spend the rest of the war in a POW camp in Germany
Started 26 September 2005, last revision 26 September 2005

Gordon L, Hulland's wartime experience as a gunner on merchant ships sailing out of Liverpool (DEM: Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships)
Started 26 September 2005, last revision 26 September 2005 Link

Account of a prisoner from the Hitachi Maru, F. G. Trayes. First published in 1919, re-published on the web 
Started 26 September 2005, last revision 20 January 2007

Two photos of HMAS Canberra sailors including Walter James Elliget
Started 25 September 2005, last revision 25 September 2005 Link

The log of a Merchant Navy chief radio officer as a POW in Milag Nord
Started 24 September 2005, last revision 24 September 2005

Research on the steamer Portland sunk with all hands during a gale off Gloucester, Mass in 1898
Started 20 September 2005, last revision 20 September 2005 Link

Annotated copy of the Bruce Loxton's book, "The Shame of Savo"
Started 20 September 2005, last revision 20 September 2005

Ocean Waves, a remarkable site about the Royal Navy that originates from Texas
Started 17 September 2005, last revision 20 September 2005 Link

Linked to your page containing the George Saqqal article on the Yangtze Patrol
Started 13 September 2005, last revision 13 September 2005

Sidney Murphy was a Chief Petty Officer, AMS Voltaire
Started 13 September 2005, last revision 13 September 2005 Link

Son of a living survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis CA-35
Started 13 September 2005, last revision 13 September 2005

Whatever happened to the wreck of the Seeadler?
Started 13 September 2005, last revision 15 September 2005 Link

History of the 'Sepia' during WWII
Started 28 August 2005, last revision 28 August 2005

Seeking information on HMAS ADELAIDE between May 1942 - Aug 1943
Started 21 August 2005, last revision 04 December 2005 Link

Admiral Donitz in German is spelt Dönitz ... with an 'Umlaut'
Started 21 August 2005, last revision 24 August 2005

George William Lamb went down with the HMS Alcantara in 1916
Started 14 August 2005, last revision 14 August 2005 Link

Congratulations to you, sir, on the 63rd anniversary of the Battle of Savo Island
Started 10 August 2005, last revision 10 August 2005

One of the 12 survivors of the Boadicea
Started 30 July 2005, last revision 04 March 2007 Link

Flags worn by ships in the late 1930's when "dressed overall"
Started 30 July 2005, last revision 30 July 2005

Was Gilbert Norman Webb Harvey aboard HMAS Canberra or HMS Hythe
Started 27 July 2005, last revision 28 July 2005 Link

Fan mail from Gregory in Texas
Started 25 July 2005, last revision 25 July 2005

Print of the Seeadler, produced from the painting by Chr Rave, who was Christopher Rave ( 1881-1933 )
Started 22 July 2005, last revision 24 July 2005 Link

Point Honda Disaster in 1923 - General Courts Martial
Started 22 July 2005, last revision 25 July 2005

Rear-Admiral Raizo Tanaka
Started 19 July 2005, last revision 04 January 2009 Link

new magazine 'The Second World War' will launch in October, 2005.
Started 17 July 2005, last revision 19 July 2005

Julian, my ultra-light pilot at Victoria Falls contact me 11 years later
Started 17 July 2005, last revision 17 July 2005 Link

Ron Smith AKA Smoudge, survivor in HMAS Canberra at the Battle of Savo Island
Started 15 July 2005, last revision 20 January 2007

Ramses Merchant Marine seamen / Paul Gilbert
Started 15 July 2005, last revision 15 July 2005 Link

The Sea Devil, by Lowell Thomas
Started 09 July 2005, last revision 04 March 2007

Father was killed on the HMS Mourne when it was sunk by a German Uboat on 15th June 1944
Started 09 July 2005, last revision 19 April 2007 Link

Empress of Ireland Artifacts Committee
Started 06 July 2005, last revision 07 July 2005

Were the prisoners aboard the Altmark POWs in terms of international law?
Started 06 July 2005, last revision 07 July 2005 Link

SS Southlands on AHOY, and the one Jackie is talking about is a different ship to your one involved with the Flying Enterprise
Started 30 June 2005, last revision 30 June 2005

Dive on Montevideo Maru
Started 30 June 2005, last revision 04 March 2007 Link

Father was on the Alcantara
Started 26 June 2005, last revision 30 July 2005

KEITH SYKES of Geelong who was a merchant seaman on the hospital ship Centaur
Started 25 June 2005, last revision 11 February 2007 Link

Website: The U.S.S. Harry Lee - Biography of an Attack Transport Ship in WWII
Started 23 June 2005, last revision 23 June 2005

We commemorated on June 17, 2005 the 65-th anniversary of the tragedy of Lancastria
Started 21 June 2005, last revision 21 June 2005 Link

Letter to the Cumberlander, the Newsletter of the HMS Cumberland
Started 21 June 2005, last revision 20 January 2007

Looking for info on Pte Joseph Patrick Blake
Started 20 June 2005, last revision 22 June 2005 Link

1923 Point Honda
Started 19 June 2005, last revision 19 June 2005

How many civlians were aboard Wilhelm Gustloff?
Started 16 June 2005, last revision 16 June 2005 Link

Rear Admiral Muirhead-Gould and the Japanese Midget attack on Sydney Harbour
Started 16 June 2005, last revision 16 June 2005

Getting a copy of my Monograph about the Sinking of Canberra at the Battle of Savo Island
Started 16 June 2005, last revision 16 June 2005 Link

Korean web site and Hamburg Cemetary web address
Started 13 June 2005, last revision 30 July 2005

Help identify sailors in picture with Maxwell Robert Linford
Started 13 June 2005, last revision 13 June 2005 Link

Congratulations and news about a spanish site
Started 13 June 2005, last revision 13 June 2005

Plaque from the Battle of the River Plate
Started 03 June 2005, last revision 13 June 2005 Link

Tracing a veteran who may have taken part in the Battle of the Coral Sea as part of the Australian naval contingent
Started 03 June 2005, last revision 03 June 2005

Seaman Richard James TURNER stoker on board the SS Matunga when it was intercepted by the German raider Wolf
Started 03 June 2005, last revision 03 June 2005 Link

Cruise ship "Hamburg" used during Operation Hannibal, Danzig region 1945
Started 30 May 2005, last revision 30 May 2005

Northwestern University's WW2 poster collection
Started 25 May 2005, last revision 25 May 2005 Link

Wartime Sunderland exploits
Started 24 May 2005, last revision 24 May 2005

Silver flower vase from the RMS Lancastria
Started 24 May 2005, last revision 24 May 2005 Link

Count von Luckner visited some German settlers on the Galapagos Islands in 1937
Started 22 May 2005, last revision 30 May 2005

Looking for a WW1 Hospital Ship, Devanka
Started 20 May 2005, last revision 11 February 2007 Link

Chairman of the HMS Cumberland Association
Started 19 May 2005, last revision 19 May 2005

The Sea Devil's Forecastle, first edition 1929, signed in blue fountain pen "Felix Count Luckner Mar '30".
Started 16 May 2005, last revision 13 June 2005 Link

George Albert Knowlton served in Ario, sunk by U-Boat U-158 off Frying Pan Shoals in WW2
Started 07 May 2005, last revision 04 March 2006

How to wear World War 2 medals and stars
Started 06 May 2005, last revision 06 May 2005 Link

Information about Richard Lindenberg who was a U-boat captain?
Started 06 May 2005, last revision 06 May 2005

Commander Warwick Bracegirdle featured in Australian War Memorial exhibition
Started 06 May 2005, last revision 19 May 2005 Link

Hospital auxiliary Anglia
Started 06 May 2005, last revision 11 February 2007

Civil War blockade runner Modern Greece
Started 25 April 2005, last revision 01 May 2005 Link

The Sea Devil by Lowell Thomas
Started 25 April 2005, last revision 25 April 2005

Father served aboard the USS AUGUSTA when Nimitz was her captain
Started 25 April 2005, last revision 25 April 2005 Link

Interest in WWII Naval History primarily in the SW Pacific during the first 6-12 months of the war
Started 13 April 2005, last revision 20 April 2005

Researching the SS Empire Bowman for one of the George Cross recipients - previously Albert Medal. Interview with Capt. C. H. Cranch
Started 02 April 2005, last revision 20 January 2007 Link

Michael O'Driscoll, who was in the Dunedin Star when she struck a submerged object
Started 28 March 2005, last revision 28 March 2005

David Morrison, steward on the Athenia died on the Athenia in Sept 1939
Started 28 March 2005, last revision 01 July 2006 Link

Felix von Luckner visited Snapper Island in 1938
Started 28 March 2005, last revision 29 March 2005

Voltaire 1 was sunk by the German Armed Merchant Raider Moewe in WW1
Started 26 March 2005, last revision 28 March 2005 Link

Information about the Australian Cruisers and Destroyers and their Movement in August 1942 after the battle of Savo
Started 25 March 2005, last revision 28 March 2005

Father was a seaman on the Ramses in WW2
Started 23 March 2005, last revision 25 March 2005 Link

Postcards, a nice one of HMAS Canberra and another of HMS Shropshire
Started 20 March 2005, last revision 20 March 2005

Cyril Hill in British ship Harperly sunk from Convoy ONS 5
Started 20 March 2005, last revision 13 January 2010 Link

Early French Explorers of Australia
Started 20 March 2005, last revision 20 March 2005

At the Eureka Stockade, was there a man on the soldier's side in the 40th Regiment called Robert Cuttle? or Rab
Cuttle or indeed anyone by the surname of Cuttle?

Started 19 March 2005, last revision 20 March 2005 Link

Count Felix Von Luckner / Paul H. Hoeft
Started 17 March 2005, last revision 17 March 2005

Corrections: French Submarine SURCOUF, the World's largest Submarine
Started 17 March 2005, last revision 30 October 2008 Link

Updates to your commerce raiders of WWI pages?
Started 17 March 2005, last revision 17 March 2005

The WW1 German raider the Karlsruhe
Started 17 March 2005, last revision 19 March 2005 Link

Translate Marauders of the Sea World War I and II into Korean?
Started 13 March 2005, last revision 13 March 2005

W C Middleton sailed in Voltaire
Started 13 March 2005, last revision 13 March 2005 Link

I wish to make an Internet site on the wreck of the Lancastria
Started 13 March 2005, last revision 21 June 2005

The RAN should establish a Hall of Fame
Started 13 March 2005, last revision 17 March 2005 Link

Dasher explosion not an accident?
Started 13 March 2005, last revision 17 March 2005

Photo which is captioned 'Thetis departing' is actually a photo of a sub being launched
Started 06 March 2005, last revision 06 March 2005 Link

Information about Karl Donitz' Baton
Started 06 March 2005, last revision 04 March 2007

Father served in HMS Lively (Destroyer)
Started 06 March 2005, last revision 06 March 2005 Link

Publishers of the book SAILORS in CAGES?
Started 28 February 2005, last revision 28 February 2005

Halsey's Poor Judgement and Inflated Ego
Started 27 February 2005, last revision 27 February 2005 Link

Sydney Memorial in Geraldton
Started 27 February 2005, last revision 27 February 2005

British Admiralty's Search for the Seeadler
Started 27 February 2005, last revision 27 February 2005 Link

von Luckner did not win a Pour le Merite
Started 27 February 2005, last revision 27 February 2005

Martha Goddard died on the Athenia in Sept 1939
Started 24 February 2005, last revision 01 July 2006 Link