Man Over Board​
Authors: Andrew Rose and Sandra Rose​

The chilling cry  Man overboard!   heralded the loss of ten men from the RAN destroyer HMAS Nizam in the Southern Indian Ocean.

A moonless night, 2215 hours on 11 February 1945, lights out, compasses suspect, loss of engines for a time, confusion and panic as the destroyer heeled more than 65º, hesitated, and then slowly returned to vertical. Nizam was in safe waters, 11 nautical miles from the Cape Leeuwin Light.

Man Overboard! lays bare the tragic story of the World War II loss of men on that summers night. This true story is told using previously unpublished secret and confidential records from Australian archives.

The little known tragedy is examined in detail against a captivating background of Australian nautical history and geography.