(Bielbrief), the Iserbrook was described as being a "Brigg". As base measurements were given: Ship length (at keel) = 105.00 Hamburgh ft (30.03 m) Ship beam = 22...

for use as a training ship for National Service trainees. Colac was returned to reserve on 30 January 1953. In 1962, the ship was converted into a tank...

Hydrabad was an iron cargo and passenger sailing ship, built in Scotland and launched in 1865. She was owned by several successive companies, and served...

stationary training ship in 1861. In 1877, she was refitted at Portsmouth and by John White at Cowes for seagoing service as a training ship. After being recommissioned...

cargo such as coal, livestock, and supplies. John Pascoe Fawkner bought the ship in April 1835 for use in his forthcoming settlement activity in Port Phillip...

(RAN) in 1912. During World War I, the cruiser captured two German merchant ships, and was involved in the East African Campaign, including the blockade of...

Australian Navy (RAN). Built for the Royal Navy during World War I, the ship was not completed until 1919, and spent less than eight months in British...

ships built for the Royal Navy in the 1870s. She suffered two serious accidents before the decade was out and gained a reputation as an unlucky ship for...

establish the first European colony in New South Wales, Australia. In 1790, the ship was wrecked on the reef, south east of Kingston Pier, in Slaughter Bay, Norfolk...

Bywell Castle was a passenger and cargo ship that was built in 1869 by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Jarrow, County Durham. She was involved in...

ship designed and built from 1852 to 1853 by James Laing & Sons of Deptford Yard in Sunderland, England and used for maritime trade, as a troop ship and...

the second half of World War II; initially as a convoy escort and patrol ship, then in the shore bombardment and amphibious landing support roles while...

SMS Grosser Kurfürst  (or Großer ) was an ironclad turret ship built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). She was laid down at the Imperial...

HMAS Adelaide (FFG 01) was the lead ship of the Adelaide class of guided missile frigates built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), based on the United...

Britannic was an ocean liner of the White Star Line. She was the first of three ships of the White Star Line to sail with the Britannic name. Britannic was a...

Adolphe was a sailing ship that was wrecked at the mouth of the Hunter River in New South Wales, Australia, in 1904. The ship is now the most prominent...

Hereward, was British clipper ship that was built in Scotland in 1877. She had an iron hull, three masts and full rig. The ship was wrecked at Maroubra, New...

Edward Lombe HMAS Goolgwai Greycliffe PS Herald Hereward Iron Chieftain Iserbrook Itata HMAS Karangi SS Kate HMAS Kuttabul Martha Three Bees William Cossar...

HMAS Kuttabul, formerly SS Kuttabul, was a Royal Australian Navy depot ship, converted from a Sydney Ferries Limited ferry. Kuttabul and her identical...

Hope was a small ship launched in 1802. She wrecked at Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia in 1817. Hope was registered on 18 October 1802. At that...

Edward Lombe HMAS Goolgwai Greycliffe PS Herald Hereward Iron Chieftain Iserbrook Itata HMAS Karangi SS Kate HMAS Kuttabul Martha Three Bees William Cossar...

Active was the French ship Alsace that the Royal Navy captured in 1803. William Bennett purchased her and named her Active, in place of a previous Active...

Penny Lane, lamenting the decay of the entertainment there. In the 1965 film Ship of Fools, Jose Ferrer and Christiane Schmidtmer sang "Heute Abend Geh'n Wir...

Malabar was a Euphrates-class troopship launched in 1866, and the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to employ the name. She was designed to carry troops between...

sails. Although widely believed to be named after Sir Walter Raleigh, the ship was in fact named for George of Raleigh. The following table gives the build...

fledgling Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1913. Australia was the only capital ship to serve in the RAN. At the start of World War I, Australia was tasked with...

Edward Lombe HMAS Goolgwai Greycliffe PS Herald Hereward Iron Chieftain Iserbrook Itata HMAS Karangi SS Kate HMAS Kuttabul Martha Three Bees William Cossar...

Cockatoo Island Dockyard, and entered service in 1916. The early part of the ship's career was spent on blockade duty in the Far East, before she was transferred...

She was built in the United Kingdom because such ships could not yet be constructed in Japan. The ship participated in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95...

Steam Navigation Company and was the first Australian registered merchant ship to be lost during World War II when it struck a mine laid by the German auxiliary...