Having severely lost the Battle of the Java Sea, the remaining Allied fleet prepared to leave Java behind and sail to Australia. Among the departing ships were the uss Houston and hmas Perth. The ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. No news has yet been received by the Prime Minister, Mr Curtin, to confirm the report of the Official Domei News Agency (Japan) that 250 ...

It has been described as a "useless sacrifice" of Australian lives. More than 350 Australian sailors died when HMAS Perth was attacked by the Japanese 69 years ago. Hundreds of people, including navy ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. To be torpedoed and sunk once by the Japanese and taken POW is unfortunate. For it to happen twice might be considered careless. On ...

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 ...

AFTER surviving the Allied defeat at the battle of the Java Sea the day before, on February 28, 1942, Captain Hector “Hec” Waller had orders to retreat — to take the HMAS Perth to safety to Tjilatjap ...