OFF PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-08-30. THE M.V. MALAITA SHORTLY AFTER SHE HAD BEEN TORPEDOED BY AN ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Accession Number 026466
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Fisher, Thomas
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

OFF PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-08-30. THE M.V. MALAITA SHORTLY AFTER SHE HAD BEEN TORPEDOED BY AN ENEMY SUBMARINE OFF PORT MORESBY ONLY ONE CASUALTY WAS SUSTAINED - THE CHIEF STEWARD WITH TWO BROKEN LEGS - AND THE VESSEL WAS TOWED INTO PORT ON THE FOLLOWING DAY.