NORTH QUEENSLAND AT WAR Volume.1 is the first of three Volumes collating all shipping movements through northern Queensland waters during WW2. Volumes 2 & 3 will trace all ship movements throughout 1943 and 1944-46 respectively. (99% of vessel movements sourced from Australian Archives written records).

To give an indication of how comprehensive the data is in the 306 pages of text in Volume.1, the number of mentions of North Queensland seaports are as follows:

 Movements of 411 vessels, both Merchant and Naval are well documented in this 306-page volume. Volumes 2& 3 will cover 1943, and 1944 to 1946 respectively, with the total number of vessels listed exceeding 1,500. For a peek at Volume.1 shipping list, please see “Ship Index”.

The comprehensive indexing will greatly assist researchers, or those people who simply wish to determine on what particular day a ship entered or departed a North Queensland port, on its way to, or from, the war zones of the South West Pacific Area.

As a 'reference document', this Volume, (together with Volumes Two and Three), is a must for Ex-Naval and Merchant Navy groups and Associations, and for researchers, Libraries, Museums and Historical Institutions, and for individuals with an interest in Merchant Marine, Allied Naval and Military activities in Australia during WW ll; in fact anyone who simply wishes to determine on what particular day a ship entered or departed a North Queensland port, on its way to, or from, the war zones of the South West Pacific Area. (What ship was where, when?)

Volume.1 will be of value also to those people who served on ships which frequented North Queensland waters during WW2. It will be of great interest to the hundreds of thousands of Allied Servicemen and women that were embarked on any of these vessels, (large and small, Merchant and Naval) during WW2.

Apart from the daily movements of Merchant Ships on the coastal trade, or those vessels carrying supplies or troops, bound for (or returning from), Darwin or New Guinea, or other theatres of war in the South West Pacific Area, the book includes the movements of allied warships that took part in the Battle of the Coral Sea and the comings and goings of Australian Naval Task Force, which between “Coral Sea patrols”, took refuge within the Great Barrier Reef at Cid Harbour, Dunk Island, Challenger Bay and Stanley Island. The book further details the Minelaying duties within the Great Barrier Reef and the movement of all Convoys and their escorts.

This “Limited Edition” 306 page Volume.1 is NOW available from Nielsen Publishing. Purchase NOW.

Click here to view the Volume.1 Interim Amendments

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