MISSION: Impossible. Every submarine attempting to pass through the Dardanelles had been sunk. But could an Australian crew and their irreverent Irish commander turn the tide of a disastrous war? The ...
A team of Australian and Turkish engineers, scientists and divers have captured underwater vision from inside Australia's first wartime submarine, the AE2. The World War I submarine was the first ...
Stoker Petty Officer Henry James Elly Kinder, RAN 7244 MID was one of only 14 Australians and one New Zealander on the crew of the AE2, the Australian submarine which fought in the Gallipoli campaign.
Eighty-six years ago tomorrow, in the middle of one of the great disasters of the first world war, an Australian submarine under the command of some colourful British officers achieved one of the ...
The memorial poppy will float directly over the Australian navy submarine AE2, which lies on the seabed 72m below. One hundred years ago this week Smyth’s grandfather, Geoffrey Haggard, was second in ...
Such was the success of the troop recruitment, there were a further 11,000 troops on board the second convoy of 17 ships bound for the Middle East. Their journey would take them via Colombo, in Ceylon ...
A commemorative service has been held on board HMAS Anzac in Turkey to honour Australia's first wartime submarine AE2, damaged and then scuttled in the Sea of Marmara during the Gallipoli campaign.
MISSION: Impossible. Every submarine attempting to pass through the Dardanelles had been sunk. But could an Australian crew and their irreverent Irish commander turn the tide of a disastrous war? The ...
As the crew of AE2 finally set about packing their belongings on their patched-up submarine, news came through of just such an attempt. The newly arrived British submarine E15 had been forced aground ...