Des Corrigan, aged 17, at the time he joined Voyager. The middle image shows an unofficial medal struck for Voyager survivors.
He survived the Voyager tragedy
Des Corrigan likes to tell people that, in his career in the Royal Australian Navy: "I sank a ship, paid one off and commissioned another". He has scores of anecdotes from his eventful life at sea and ashore, but the sinking of HMAS Voyager in February 1964 looms largest. It is also the one he has spoken least about. For the first four years of their long marriage even his wife, Robyn, didn't know Des had been on the Voyager. Now he's about to turn 80 and has decided to break his long silence. Des with…