Winter Lecture Series 2025- Wayne Carney: The Battle of Sund Strait
Schedule
Mon Mar 31 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1202 Navigation Circle , Rockport, TX, United States, Texas 78382 | Rockport, TX
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Join us at the Texas Maritime Museum for our annual Winter Lecture Series every Monday from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. This free program is one of our most popular adult offerings and features twelve weeks of engaging and informative presentations by distinguished professionals in various fields. Complimentary refreshments will be provided. We especially thank our 2025 speakers for contributing to another enlightening and successful year.Wayne Carney has over 40 years of combined experience with the Police, Security & Defense Services. His foundation was based on the Royal Australian Navy, followed by a policing role in the Northern Territory Police Force & Federal Government Director of Fraud Investigations. After that, he has been an active Protection Operative and consultant on Close Personal Protection operations here and abroad. Wayne is a national trainer in Protective Services Operations and has recently completed training with US law enforcement agencies on Protective Services Operations. He is a Past Commodore of the Rockport Yacht Club and an instructor for the yacht club’s youth summer sailing school. Having an interest in promoting the history and traditions of U.S. and Commonwealth Naval Forces, he has researched several events of World War II and other naval conflicts.
The Battle of Sunda Strait
Over 80 years ago, on 28 February 1942, two ships and their crews from opposite sides of the world together faced an overwhelming Japanese naval force in the narrow Sunda Strait that separates the islands of Sumatra and Java.
In just over an hour of a ferocious sea battle the cruisers HMAS Perth and USS Houston sank with the loss of 696 Americans and 375 Australians including both ships’ captains. Another 675 crew from the ships were taken as prisoners of war. The victorious Japanese lost 10 men. As a response, over 1000 Houstonians volunteered to avenge those lost or captured, joining Australian and other allied forces to ultimately win the war. Their battle cry was “Remember the Houston.”
To commemorate the battle and remember the sacrifices of those involved, the Australian National Maritime Museum’s USA Programs has commissioned the ‘Guardians of Sunda Strait’ exhibition, opening in Houston on 1 March 2025 and then travelling to Sydney and Perth.
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Where is it happening?
1202 Navigation Circle , Rockport, TX, United States, Texas 78382Event Location & Nearby Stays:
