| Accession Number | RELAWM31634 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Heraldry |
| Object type | Heraldry |
| Physical description | Iron |
| Maker |
Unknown |
| Place made | Japan |
| Date made | Unknown |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Bomb Fragment : HMAS Manunda
Description
Piece of irregularly shaped steel shrapnel displaying part of a screw thread on one side and a milled surface on the other. The remainder of the piece is randomly damaged and torn. Some small pieces, foreign to the iron, have been fused to one side of the piece.
History / Summary
Bomb fragment collected from HMAHS Manunda. On 19th February, 1942, the hospital ship Manunda, then in port at Darwin, was damaged during the first of two Japanese air raids on Darwin on that day.
This large bomb fragment is was collected by Second Chief Engineer I Jones the morning after the raid when he found the piece of shrapnel, part of the bombcase which had made a direct hit on the ship, embedded in a freezer door in Number 3 Hold.