Coaling HMA ship (cruiser) at the West Indies

Place North & Central America: Caribbean
Accession Number ART13328
Collection type Art
Measurement unframed: 40.3 x 51 cm (irreg.)
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on plywood
Maker Crozier, Frank
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 1936
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Men of the West Indies are coaling a ship. HMAS Sydney and Melbourne carried out alternate patrols of the Caribbean (based in Jamaica) and the North Atlantic off Long Island (based at Halifax) between 1915 and 1916, as part of the North American and West Indies Squadron.