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This is a list of Allied ships sunk by Axis warships operating in Australian waters during the Second World War. Fifty four Axis surface raiders and submarines (both German and Japanese) carried out these attacks, sinking 53 merchant ships and three warships within the Australia Station , resulting in the deaths of over 1,751 Allied military ...
Until November, the only casualties from Axis ships on the Australia Station in 1941 were caused by mines laid by Pinguin in 1940. The small trawler Millimumul was sunk with the loss of seven lives after striking a mine off the New South Wales coast on 26 March 1941, and two ratings from a mine disposal party were killed while attempting to ...
The list includes incidents involving equipment (helicopters, whaleboats) attached to ships and naval establishments. The list excludes losses on non-RAN vessels (including attacks on merchant shipping), merchant seaman deaths, and other losses (including prisoner of war deaths). Fatalities include all lives lost on the named vessel at each ...
A transport ship that was bombed by Japanese planes returning from the attack on Darwin. The captain attempted to beach the ship on Bathurst Island , but the engines failed three miles offshore. 11°42.3′S 130°02′E / 11.7050°S 130.033°E / -11.7050; 130.033 ( Don Isidro
Hospital ship Australia: 14 May 1943 I-177 Japan: 258 City of Benares: Ocean liner serving as child evacuation ship United Kingdom: 17 September 1940 U-48 Germany: 226: Yamakaze: Destroyer Japan: 25 June 1942: USS Nautilus United States: 194 [118] INS Khukri: Frigate India: 9 December 1971: PNS Hangor Pakistan: 193 [119] USS Wasp: Aircraft ...
The Bataan Death March saw thousands of U.S. and Filipino troops killed as they were forced to march through perilous jungles by Japanese captors.
Tiger Death March memorial at Andersonville National Historic Site. During the Korean War, in the winter of 1951, 200,000 South Korean National Defense Corps soldiers were forcibly marched by their commanders, and 50,000 to 90,000 soldiers starved to death or died of disease during the march or in the training camps. [48]
The ship was carrying more than 1.5 million gallons of fuel oil, Gautier added. Documenting the accident will involve photographing the ship and the 47-year-old bridge and collecting electronic logs.