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Chipping hammer : Leading Seaman Radar Plotter J G Barclay, Royal Australian Navy
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Wooden handled chipping hammer. The wooden handle is offset to the face end of the head. The opposite end is formed into a sharp peen.REL39393
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Damaged Hertz horn marine mine Type II: German armed merchant raider 'Wolf'
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Oval shaped German moored Hertz horn contact mine. The mine's four contact horns are missing, leaving four holes around the top. The base has a bracket which originally tethered the mine to an anchor....RELAWM09902
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Desk top from HMAS Sydney (1913-1928) : C E W Bean
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Rectangular wooden desk top with two inset compartments with lift-top lids. Under both lids is a transfer with an anchor and the words 'USED IN H.M.A.S SYDNEY'. A note adhered to the base of the left ...REL39652.001
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Home made dagger taken from smuggling vessel : MV Zarkaat
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Dagger made from a table knife by a member of the crew of a smuggling vessel in the Persian Gulf. The dagger was taken by a member of a Royal Australian Navy boarding party.REL30455
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Light : HMAS Quiberon
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Brass light from the Q class destroyer HMAS Quiberon. The light was screwed onto one of Quiberon's four 4.7 inch QF MkIX guns to illuminate a central dial. The light is cylindrical in shape with a 10m...REL34530
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Metal Fragment: removed from an Emden sailor by Captain H B Lewers, Australian Army Medical Corps, AIF
Technology
Maker: Unknown
8 mm fragment of metal removed from the person of a German sailor wounded during the Emden's battle with HMAS Sydney. Kept with a paper envelope, folded in four and badly torn. Front inscription read...REL/03472
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Wooden box to hold ship's books : HMAS Australia II
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Wooden box constructed from five layers of wood/ply glued together to form a single piece 12 mm thick. The sides of the box are dovetailed. The 73 mm deep lid is attached to the box by two steel hinge...REL38544