THE STEAMER ANSHUN LYING ON HER SIDE IN MILNE BAY, WHERE SHE WAS SHELLED AND SUNK BY A JAPANESE ...

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Accession Number 026665
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Fisher, Thomas
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Milne Bay
Date made September 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

THE STEAMER ANSHUN LYING ON HER SIDE IN MILNE BAY, WHERE SHE WAS SHELLED AND SUNK BY A JAPANESE CRUISER. THE ANSHUN WAS LATER SALVAGED AND TOWED TO SYDNEY, A DISTANCE OF 1750 MILES.