Cockatoo Dockyard, Sydney. Keel laying ceremony of the second Tribal Class Destroyer HMAS ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Cockatoo Island
Accession Number 000782
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Cockatoo Island
Date made 16 February 1940
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Cockatoo Dockyard, Sydney. Keel laying ceremony of the second Tribal Class Destroyer HMAS Warramunga after the launching of the sloop HMAS Warrego. Mr Menzies puts a rivet in the keel of HMAS Warramunga as Sir Frederick Stewart, Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin and Rear Admiral Crace look on.