Her name was Red Lead, and she was the ship's cat, beloved by the crew and by the Perth's legendary captain Hector Waller.īut surviving shellfire, torpedoes and the fierce currents of the Sunda Strait was only the beginning of the terrible trials Red Lead and the surviving crew were to face over the next three-and-a-half years. Of the 681 men aboard, 328 survived the sinking and made it to shore-and one cat. Just after midnight on 1 March 1942, Australia's most renowned cruiser, HMAS Perth, was sunk by Japanese naval forces in the Sunda Strait off the coast of Java. The legendary Australian ship's cat who survived the sinking of HMAS Perth and the Thai-Burma Railway Tydskrifte in Afrikaans : Magazines in Afrikaans.Boeke in Afrikaans : Books in Afrikaans.Mga libro ma Filipino : Books in Tagalog.Zeitschriften in deutscher Sprache : Magazines in German.Bücher in deutscher Sprache : Books in German.Magazines en français : Magazines in French.中文杂志 Zhōngwén zázhì : Magazines in Chinese.किताबें हिंदी में Kitaaben hindee mein : Books in Hindi.Ngā pukapuka i te reo Māori : Books in the Māori Language.Children's AudioBook Club 2023-2024: Guaranteed Available.Guaranteed Available: Book Club: eAudio Classic 'Reads'.AudioBook Club 2023-2024: Guaranteed Available.Travel Club 2023-2024: Guaranteed Available.Guaranteed Available: Kids & Teens Book Club: Classics.Guaranteed Available: Book Club: Literature with a Big L.Book Club 2023-2024: Guaranteed Available : Karapu Pukapuka: Wātea Mārika 2023-2024.

Red Lead by Roland Perry