They sang like kangaroos
Subtitle: Australia's Tinpot Navy in the Great War
By: Anthony Delano
Publisher: Arcadia
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781921875724
Subjects: History; Navies; Naval History; Australia. Royal Australian Navy; Australia
Description: Stories from the earliest days of the Royal Australian Navy that few Australians will have heard. Drama in Port Phillip Bay. German steamer with secret codebook on board taken at pistol point. The battlecruiser Australia, most powerful ship in the Southern Hemisphere, was also the unhappiest. Mutiny and a bitter homecoming.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]).