On February 28, 1942, the cruiser HMAS Perth sailed into a trap in the Sunda Strait, facing a massive Japanese invasion force ...

In 1942, the last two Allied warships in the Java Sea, USS Houston and HMAS Perth, prepared for a desperate escape, unaware ...

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 ...

Although I've never been to Perth, Nana Booker, Australia's honorary consul in Houston until her retirement last year, tells me that Australia's west-coast metropolis is similar in several respects to ...

Sept. 9 (UPI) --The mast of the Australian Navy frigate HMAS Anzac was installed on Monday, a milestone in its mid-life upgrade, BAE systems announced. The upgrade, the latest in a series of upgrades ...

HMAS Perth , seen here on its return to Fleet Base West, Garden Island. (Commonwealth of Australia) The Royal Australian Navy's (RAN's) Anzac-class frigate HMAS Perth has been redeployed to its home ...