THERE were emotional scenes at Fleet Base West this morning as family and friends gathered to say goodbye as HMAS Perth set sail for its first mission abroad. The 192 personnel are headed to the ...

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 ...

LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: One dark night off the coast of Java in 1942, two Allied ships were caught off-guard and forced to face the invading Japanese battle fleet alone. The Australian warships HMAS ...

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 ...

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 ...

What: The Royal Australian Navy’s Anzac Class Frigate HMAS Perth will visit Wellington, NZ to participate in ANZAC Day remembrance ceremonies in Wellington and Carterton, demonstrate the capabilities ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. TONY EASTLEY: A specialised team of Indonesians and Australians will dive on the wreck of HMAS Perth ...

Deep in Indonesia’s Banten Bay, HMAS Perth does not come into view all at once but reveals itself slowly. In the silty blue water, the final resting place of one of Australia’s most revered warships ...

THE abuse of young sailors at Perth’s Leeuwin naval base — and at Australian Defence Force schools for cadets and apprentices — will be examined by a royal commission. The inquiry in Sydney on Tuesday ...

The Abbott government should try to claim HMAS Perth as a war grave to prevent salvagers damaging the wreck, a historian and a survivor say. The federal government is being urged to claim HMAS Perth ...

The 192 personnel are headed to the Middle East as part of Operation Manitou. Perth’s Commanding Officer Captain Ivan Ingham said the deployment was part of a multi-national Combined Maritime Forces ...