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 ...

Only 40% remains of the final resting place for 353 Australian navy sailors who drowned off the coast of Java in the Second World War, archaeologists say Canberra: One of Australia’s most treasured ...

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 ...

The sunken Australian vessel is the next in a long line of downed ships illegally salvaged for scrap metal that can be valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars You can save this article by ...