List of ships sunk by Axis warships in Australian waters information
The U.S.-registered Liberty Ship Starr King sinking after being attacked near Port Macquarie on 10 February 1943.
This is a list of Allied ships sunk by Axis warships operating in Australian waters during the Second World War.
Fifty four Axis surface raiders and submarines (both German and Japanese) carried out these attacks, sinking 53 merchant ships and three warships within the Australia Station, resulting in the deaths of over 1,751 Allied military personnel, sailors and civilians. A further 88 civilians were killed in air raids.
The definition of "Australian waters" used in this list is the area designated the Australia Station prior to the outbreak of war. This vast area consisted of the waters around Australia and eastern New Guinea, and stretching south to Antarctica. From east to west, it stretched from 170° east in the Pacific Ocean to 80° east in the Indian Ocean, and from north to south it stretched from the Equator to the Antarctic.[1]
A full account is given in Axis naval activity in Australian waters
^G. Herman Gill (1957). Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 2 – Navy. Volume I – Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942 Archived 27 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine. Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Pages 52–53.
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