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Author Walker, Frank (Frank B.)

Title HMAS Armidale : the ship that had to die / by Frank B. Walker
Published Budgewoi, N.S.W. : Kingfisher Press, 1990

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 W'PONDS  940.545994 Wal/Hat  AVAILABLE
Description 179 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents Timor force intact and still fighting -- HMAS Voyager is written off -- The charge of the light brigade -- "Dive or die" -- "It was bloody murder" -- The world's most original floating dock -- The survivors shunned -- A sting in the tail -- Botched up and covered up -- The final casualty -- Appendices
Notes Available from Kingfisher Press, PO Box 71, Budgewoi NSW 2262
Cover subtitle: A wrong decision cost 100 lives, but produced an epic of sea survival and an act of sublime heroism
Bibliography Bibliography: page 9
Subject Armidale (Corvette)
Armidale (Corvette)
Armidale (Ship)
Voyager (Destroyer : D31)
Armidale (corvette)
Shipwreck survival.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Timor Sea.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Darwin -- Naval operations
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Australia
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Australian
LC no. 91100176
ISBN 0646005413
9780646005416 (paperback0)
Other Titles HMAS Armidale lives on