HMAS Voyager/Melbourne Collision

On the night of 10 February 1964, during night flying operations, the RAN’s flagship the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne (II) was in collision with the Daring Class destroyer HMAS Voyager (II). Voyager was cut in two and 82 men were killed in what was the RAN’s worst peacetime loss of life. This extract from the Royal Australian Navy production "The History of the Royal Australian Navy Volume Three, 1945-1975" examines the events that led to the collision as well as its terrible aftermath.