On the night of February 28 to March 1, 1942, USS Houston and HMAS Perth tried to escape through Sunda Strait after the ...

The 192 personnel are headed to the Middle East as part of Operation Manitou. Perth’s Commanding Officer Captain Ivan Ingham said the deployment was part of a multi-national Combined Maritime Forces ...

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

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

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

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

Deep in Indonesia’s Banten Bay, HMAS Perth does not come into view all at once but reveals itself slowly. In the silty blue water, the final resting place of one of Australia’s most revered warships ...

THE abuse of young sailors at Perth’s Leeuwin naval base — and at Australian Defence Force schools for cadets and apprentices — will be examined by a royal commission. The inquiry in Sydney on Tuesday ...

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

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