HMAS Sydney

​Rabaul society to host ‘Montevideo Maru’ anniversary

A memorial dusk service will be held on the day of its departure from Rabaul 75 years ago - 29th June 1942 at the Montevideo Maru Memorial, Rabaul Town foreshore.

1053 Australian soldiers and civilians disappeared without trace when the Japanese transport ‘hellship’ Montevideo Maru was torpedoed by an American submarine off the Philippines coast in 1942.