HMAS Napier entering Colombo graving dock

Place Asia: Ceylon, Colombo
Accession Number ART22777
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 29.3 x 44.2 cm (sight)
Object type Work on paper
Physical description coloured crayons with watercolour heightened with white on paper
Maker Hodgkinson, Roy
Place made Ceylon: Colombo
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Showing HMAS Napier entering the dock from a bottom scraping etc., after returning from the Arakan. The natives, Sinhalan, Tamil's etc., employed around the dock, are seen tending the securing lines prior to the pumping out of the docking. The First Lieutenant is shown standing supervising the docking. In the background is the pumping station, Colombo, Ceylon.

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