SS Esperance Bay
In October 1945, the troopship SS Esperance Bay departed Australia carrying over 1,400 striking Indonesian seamen and soldiers back to their homeland during the early days of the Indonesian National Revolution.
Joris Ivens and the Role of Film in the Indonesian Independence Movement
This article examines how Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens made the documentary Indonesia Calling in Sydney in 1945–46. The film depicted the boycott by Indonesian seamen and Australian maritime unions of Dutch ships carrying troops and military supplies to Indonesia. It also explores the multinational support for the boycott, the film’s controversial production and its use in promoting the Indonesian struggle for independence.
Emotional scenes as Indonesians leave for home on the Esperance
Indonesian dockworkers and seamen who worked in Australia during the war embark on the Esperance Bay to be taken to Java.
Esperance Bay leaves Brisbane
Esperance Bay leaves Brisbane with >1400 Indonesians destined for Java at the end of the war.
Trouble On Esperance Bay Explained
Indonesians aboard Esperance Bay protested when 40 potential leaders were compelled to disembark in Timor rather than Java.
Esperance Bay Enquiry Urged
Faddin demands that Chifley open an inquiry into a mutiny on the Esperance Bay
The Esperance Bay Mutiny - allegations of smuggled arms
Allegations by Daily Mail correspondent that Indonesians smuggled arms on board Esperance Bay.
Esperance Bay 'Double Cross'
Esperance Bay docks at Timor as Mountbatten is unable to ensure safe conduct in Java for 40 activist Indonesians on board despite assurances from Australian government.
Esperance Bay Story Denied
Calwell denies that the Indonesians protest on the Esperance Bay was a mutiny - no lives were in danger.
NO MUTINY ON ESPERANCE BAY
K. Plumb, government minister who travelled on Esperance Bay, denies that a mutiny took place at Timor.
KOEPANG, TIMOR. 1946-02-17. Freedom movement sympathisers who disembarked from Esperance Bay
Indonesian nationalists disembarked at Koepang, Timor from SS Esperance Bay