A Cook’s Tour – HMAS Perth’s Mediterranean War 1941

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Title: A Cook’s Tour – HMAS Perth’s Mediterranean War 1941

Author: Norris, Roy

Condition: Near Mint Plus

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 2005

ISBN: 1876939230

Cover: Soft Cover with Dust Jacket – 136 pages.

Comments: The history of HMAS Perth and it’s 1941 Mediterranean deployment during World War 2.

HMAS Perth was built at Portsmouth Naval Dockyard and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Amphion on 15 June 1936. Purchased by the Australian Government, she was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 29 June 1939. The ship was torpedoed by the Japanese and sank on 1 March 1942. Of the Perth’s company of 686, only 218 were repatriated. Many became prisoners of war and were incarcerated in camp near Batavia, Java.

For all but a few months from her commissioning in June 1939 to her sinking on 1 March 1942, the Australian light cruiser Perth was engaged in wartime operations.

A Cooks Tour presents the campaign as seen through the eyes of the accomplished sailor-author-artist, recording events in watercolor.

The author writes a deeply moving detail of his experiences and those of his ship-mates on board the light cruiser HMAS Perth, during the ships operations in the Mediterranean in the first months of 1941. Discusses battles against the Italian Navy, air raids in Malta, Greece, Crete & Egypt.