Royal Australian Navy Archives ~ Photo Time Tunnel

A sketch, from a New Zealand newspaper, of the sinking Helen B Sterling.

Newcastle schoolboy’s shipwreck story

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:May 7, 2020
Post Category:History / Miscellaneous / Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Stockton schoolboy Leslie Harris was 10 years old on January 5, 1922, when he went aboard the four-masted schooner Helen B Sterling, along with his mother Edith and his father…

HMAS Australia in Sydney Harbour in 1920

The end of HMAS Australia

Post Author:Greg Ray
Post published:September 12, 2019
Post Category:History / Militaria / Vintage Photographs and Photography

The Indefatigable class battlecruiser HMAS Australia was the Australian Navy’s first flagship, whose arrival in Sydney in October 1913 is popularly regarded as marking the coming of age of the…