Sept. 24, 1942: HMAS VOYAGER [I] - dawn reveals a sad scene in Betano Bay, Timor - Ralph Dymond Collection.

2925. After the end of the war, on December 15, 1945, the wreck of HMAS VOYAGER [I] was extensively photographed by an Official War Photographer, Sergeant Benjamin Keith Davis, and there was a considerable amount of her hulk left.

 

Thumbnails of those photographs held in the Naval Historical Collection, Australian War Memorial, can be found here:

 

www.awm.gov.au/search/collections/?mode=advanced&q=HM...

 

During the East Timor crisis in 2000, however, the RAN's Clearance Diving Team Four, conducted a survey of Betano Bay, and found much less wreckage remaining - a line of what looks like mainly engineroom relics exposed at low tide.

 

A photograph of that can be seen at the bottom of the RAN Seapower Centre's webpage for HMAS VOYAGER [I], here:

 

www.navy.gov.au/HMAS_Voyager_(I)

 

This photo: It appear in Ralph Dymond's book 'The History of HMAS VOYAGER [I],' [Southern Holdings 1992.

 

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