A starboard bow view of ships of tanker convoy No. 12 underway in the Persian Gulf, 21 October 1987
The following article is based upon excerpts from The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations – Australia and the ‘New World Order’ pp 157-169 by Professor David Horner.
The Tanker War 1984 – 1988
As the ADF prepares to deploy Navy and Air Force elements to the Persian Gulf to join a US led Coalition escorting Tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, it is timely to review an earlier period in history when merchant ships were being escorted through the Strait and across the Persian Gulf.
