HMAS MILDURA - Links to other Nautical Sites

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The Royal Australian Navy (RAN)

• Royal Australian Navy - official web site
• Royal Australian Navy Net - unofficial web site
• Royal Australian Navy in WW2 - brief history
• Royal Australian Navy in World War II - a site with lots of details about the ships.
• List of all RAN ships

• US Navy official web site
• Subnet - US submarines

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.
• Australian Made Corvettes - general details
• 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.

Communication in WWII:

• Semaphore
• Morse code

Merchant and Troop Ships:

• Australian Merchant Navy - Stories of the War at Sea
• Learning and the Liberty Ships: Research papers and links to the liberty ships
• Project Liberty Ship: A non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the Liberty Ship S.S. JOHN W BROWN
• S.S. John Brown - brief details
• SS Jeremiah O'Brien - a restored US Liberty Ship
• Troop Ship Information - mainly US but some Aussie details
• SS Lane Victory - a restored US victory ship
• US Merchant Marine Veterans - some interesting info here
• Convoys to Singapore - list of ships in convoys
  

Warships

• USS Washington BB56: World War II battleship. Sank more combat tonnage than any other US ship.
• HMAS Diamantina - a river class frigate on display at the Queensland Maritime Museum.
• HMAS Perth - website with history and photos

World War II Links

• Australia in World War II
• 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
• Pearl Harbour - National Geographic Site
• Wartime Letters - Olive and Eric. A tribute to those who were separated by the war.
• Third Reich In Ruins - photo collection
• Maritime Disasters of World War II - gives details of the sinking of 150 ships, including HMAS Sydney, Perth and the Centaur.
• Avro Anson Restoration Project a Canadian project
• Avro Anson Restoration - Ballarat, Australia
• War At Sea - 1939-1945 List of ships sunk around Australia
• Darwin Cenotaph - details of the 51 plaques
• Allied Ships in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945 - List
• Pictures of World War 2 - US National Archives
• The Islands Fall - RAF in the Far East

Women and the War

• Brave Women of Oceania - diaries, interviews and other historic information
• Heroines of the SOE - Female agents of the Special Operations Executive.
• WASP - Women's Airforce Service Pilots (US)

Research

• Australian War Memorial - includes access to database of collection, virtual tour and on-line galleries.
• Naval Association of Australia - Queensland
• 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.

Books      

• 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 War - Bob Wallace
• Books on Line - Australian War Memorial

Merchandise

• Cap Tallies and Badges - including Australian corvettes
• Ships photographs

Training Ships and National Service

• National Servicemen's Association of Australia Inc.
• Naval Roll for National Service

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