Bomb Fragment : HMAS Manunda

Accession Number RELAWM31634
Collection type Heraldry
Object type Heraldry
Physical description Iron
Maker Unknown
Place made Japan
Date made Unknown
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Description

Piece of irregularly shaped steel shrapnel displaying part of a screw thread on one side and a milled surface on the other. The remainder of the piece is randomly damaged and torn. Some small pieces, foreign to the iron, have been fused to one side of the piece.

History / Summary

Bomb fragment collected from HMAHS Manunda. On 19th February, 1942, the hospital ship Manunda, then in port at Darwin, was damaged during the first of two Japanese air raids on Darwin on that day.

This large bomb fragment is was collected by Second Chief Engineer I Jones the morning after the raid when he found the piece of shrapnel, part of the bombcase which had made a direct hit on the ship, embedded in a freezer door in Number 3 Hold.