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The Royal Australian Navy (RAN)

• Royal Australian Navy - official web site
• RAN: brief history of WW2 - Seapower Centre, Australia
• The RAN in the Pacific War - Seapower Centre, Australia
• The Navy Historical Society of Australia - photos, history, plans
• Royal Australian Navy in World War II - a site with lots of details about the ships.
• List of all RAN ships
• Ships Badges - including many corvettes

The Royal New Zealand Navy

• Royal New Zealand Navy - official web site
• Royal New Zealand Naval Association - official web site

The Royal Navy

• Royal Navy - official web site
• Flower Class Corvettes - information about the original British corvettes
• The Fleet Air Arm Archive
• British Submarine Depot Ships - including HMS MAIDSTONE

HMS MAIDSTONE
Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial

United States Navy

• US Navy official web site
• Subnet - US submarines
• Hyperwar - The US Navy in World War 2
• Landing Ships - The LST's

The Indian Navy

• Indian Naval History - official web site
• Indian Navy - unofficial web site

Imperial Japanese Navy

• Imperial Japanese Navy - information on the IJN in WWII with photos etc.

Royal Canadian Navy

• List of WW2 Canadian Warships

Dutch Navy

• Dutch Submarines in World War Two - extensive photos

Bathurst Class Corvette Sites - General:

• Corvette Links - information and links to all RAN Corvettes
• Corvettes of the Australian Navy in World War II - details of all the corvettes.
• The last corvettes to leave Tjilatjap last vessels to leave the harbour with evacuees, while the Japanese invasion took place
• Minesweepers - details of the Bathurst class corvettes and other Australian minesweepers.

• Semaphore
• Morse code

Merchant and Troop Ships of World War 2:

• Australian Merchant Navy - The Sea Supply Line
• Project Liberty Ship: A nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the Liberty Ship SS JOHN W BROWN
• SS JEREMIAH O'BRIEN - a restored US Liberty Ship
• SS JEREMIAH O'BRIEN - Marty Wefald's website
• SS LANE VICTORY - a restored US victory ship
• US Merchant Marine Veterans - some interesting info here
• The Ships List - a list of ships with brief details
• HMT QUEEN MARY - ship history including war service.
• HMT QUEEN ELIZABETH
  • Ship history including war service
• Sinking of the hospital ship CENTAUR: Australian War Memorial site
• The MV CENTAUR Tragedy - photos, anecdotes, lists etc.
• MV MERKUR - as Fleet Victualling Store Issue Supply Ship (F.V.S.I.S.) she supplied stores to American, British, and Australian naval units in the Western Pacific from Noumea to the Philippines.
• SS McANDREW - One of eight transports in Task Force 6814, sent to defend New Caledonia in January, 1942. A former pleasure cruiser.
  • Harold Harrison's WW2 - a US soldier on the SS McAndrew
• Memorial to US Merchant Marine sailors from Camden, New Jersey, killed in WW2.
• T2 Tankers such as SS MOBILUBE
• SS MOBILUBE - picture and details
• Troop Ships - details of the troop ships of WW2

Individual Warships of World War 2

AUSTRALIA

• HMAS AUSTRALIA:
  • a brief history
  • another history with photo
• HMAS DIAMATTINA- a river class frigate on display at the Queensland Maritime Museum.
• HMAS DOOMBA - formerly WWI minesweeper HMS WEXFORD, then SS DOOMBA, then HMAS DOOMBA and finally SS MEGGOL. Scuttled off Sydney and used as a dive site.
  • http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/articles/meggol.htm
• HMAS GIPPSLAND: former Gippsland Lakes vessel used a boom defence vessel in Sydney Harbour. The minefield tender HMAS GIPPSLAND was commissioned. GIPPSLAND was laid down in Payensville, VIC, in 1908. She was requisitioned for the RAN, from her owners, Red Funnel Trawlers Pty Ltd, on 24 June 1942.
• HMAS KUTTABUL - former Sydney ferry, used as naval accomodation and sunk in Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines
• HMAS MORETON - RAN Shore Establishment, Brisbane
• HMAS MURCHISON - River class frigate
• HMAS PERTH - website with history and photos
• HMAS PERTH - official RAN pages
• HMAS RUSHCUTTER - Naval shore establishment, Darling Point, Sydney
• HMAS SPRIGHTLY - a naval rescue tug
• HMAS SWAN - Destroyer, member 20th Minesweeping Flotilla
• HMAS SYDNEY - history, photos, crew list, etc.
• HMAS WARREGO - A Grimsby class escort sloop, senior ship of the 20th Minesweeping flotilla.
• HMAS WILCANNIA: a merchant vessel taken over for use by the RAN during WW2.

UNITED STATES

• USS BOWFIN - Submarine and now museum
• USS EDSALL DD 219 - US Destroyer sunk in March 1942
• USS HAZARD - a minesweeper
• USS LARGATO - submarine, sunk 1945, wreck discovered 2006
• USS PERCH - submarine, sunk march 1942 wreck discovered 2006
• USS SAUFLEY - US Destroyer, lots of interesting photos
• USS WAHOO - Submarine sunk october 1943, wreck discovered 2006
• USS WASHINGTON BB56: World War II battleship. Sank more combat tonnage than any other US ship.
• USS ZANE - A Clemson class destroyer, later converted to a high-speed minesweeper. Involved in towing the BURNETT

GREAT BRITAIN

• HMS BARHAM - RN Battleship sunk November 1941 with the loss of 841 sailors
  • HMS BARHAM Association - crew lists, stories, photos
  • A collection of photos - website by Mike Lynd
  • Wikipedia entry
  • US Dept. of Navy historical collection
• HMS EKINS - Captain class frigate, mined 1945
• HMS FIREDRAKE - Flower class corvette, sunk December 1942
• HMS VENGEANCE Aircraft Carrier Appeal Site launched to help raise funds to save the last British Built Second World War Aircraft Carrier and bring her back to the UK as a RN and FAA Museum
• HMS WARSPITE - Official RN history of British Queen Elizabeth class battleship, built 1912 and scrapped 1946. Served with the Eastern Fleet in 1942, protecting the Indian Ocean.
  • Wikiedia entry of HMS WARSPITE

Algerine Class Minesweeper, Royal Navy

• HMCS SACKVILLE - Only Flower Class corvette that survived the war. Now a naval museum in Canada, website includes a virtual tour.

NEW ZEALAND

• HMNZS ACHILLES - Leander class cruiser, involved in the Battle of the River Plate

JAPAN

• The I Class Japanese Submarines
• I 401 submarine found near Honolulu
• Midget Submarine wreck discovered near Sydney

World War 2 Web Sites 

• Australia @ War- items about all sorts of topics, plane crashes, ships lost, disposal of war surplus and more!
• Australia at War 1788-1999 - information about all war related topics
• Australia's Submarine Heritage - includes a list of all subs operating out of Fremantle during WW2
• Australian War Diary - Through the Eyes of Warriors (site cannot be found - Jan 2007)
• Avro Anson Restoration Project a Canadian project
• Avro Anson Restoration - Ballarat, Australia
• Darwin Cenotaph - details of the 51 plaques
• Flags of World War Two
• Hong Kong War Diary - the defence of Hong Kong 1941
• Maritime Disasters of World War II - gives details of the sinking of 150 ships, including HMAS Sydney, Perth and the Centaur.
• Pearl Harbour - National Geographic Site
• Pictures of World War 2 - US National Archives
• Third Reich In Ruins - Geoff Walden's photo collection
• War At Sea - 1939-1945 List of ships sunk around Australia
• The War At Sea - month by month description of the war
• Wartime Letters - Olive and Eric. A tribute to those who were separated by the war.
• Wrecks of World War 2 - Ships wrecked in Australian waters
• The Axis History Factbook - all sorts of info on the Third Reich available on this site
• WWII Timelines, Maps, Statistics, Trivia, and Glossary
• WWII - Links to related sites www.ww2links.netfirm.com
• U-Boats: uboat.net is an apolitical site- our focus is history of the
  U-boat War 1939-1945 -all aspects of it.
• Midget Submarine Attack on Sydney Harbour: National Archive Fact Sheet
• German auxilary cruiser PINGUIN laid mines off Victoria in 1940.
• War Memorials in Australia - details, pictures etc
• War Ships of World War 2 - a listing of over 19,000 ships

Women and World War 2:

• Brave Women of Oceania - diaries, interviews and other historic informatio

• Heroines of the SOE - Female agents of the Special Operations Executive

• WASP - Women's Airforce Service Pilots (US)
• Women and the Homefront during World War 2

Research Sites on World War 2:

• Australian War Memorial - includes access to database of collection, virtual tour and on-line galleries.
• Naval Association of Australia - National
• Australian National Maritime Museum
• Maritime History and Naval Heritage Website - links to lots of things!
• Haze, Gray and Underway  - world naval history and photographs
• National Museum (US) of the Pacific War - 
• Australian War Memorial - photo data base and other info
• Returned Services League (RSL) Australia - historical records database
• How to Research World War II ships - mainly US merchant ships.
• Geelong Naval and Maritime Museum - at Osborne House, Geelong, the RAN's first Naval College.
• World War 2 Links on the Internet - a huge collection of sites to look at
• Pacific Wreck Database
• BBC - World War 2 Online history of the war includes a timeline, the Holocaust, Battle of Britain and personalities involved.
• World War 2 Timeline -Arranged by date and by topic. Also includes pictures, maps, documents and biographies.
• WWII Resources - Comprehensive collection of primary source materials, some on-site, some links to elsewhere.
• Military and Naval Campaign Summaries of World War Two.
• List of American Merchant Ships sunk in WW2
• Recollections of a Kamikaze - interesting with lots of photos
• Japanese Aircraft - best site on the web

• Corvettes - Little Ships for Big Men - Frank B.Walker 1995
• A Small War - Corvettes: the 39 Through Fremantle - Bruce Farrington

• Toku Tai - Japanese Submarine Operations in Australian Waters - Lew Lind, Kangaroo Press, 1992
• The Secret Battle 1942 - 1944, Robert Wallace, Lamont Publishing, 1995
• Battle Surface! Japan's War Against Australia - David Jenkins, Random House
• Search the AWM collection - Australian War Memorial

• WWII Aircraft Wreck Sites on CD ROM - Pacific Ghosts

• National Servicemen's Association of Australia Inc.

• The Encyclopaedia of Australian Shipwrecks, http://www.netspace.net.au/~oceans1/easw-map.html

© HMAS MILDURA ASSOCIATION Victoria Australia March 3, 2007

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