Ship building

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, Williamstown
Accession Number ART21768
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 27.9 x 40.5 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description black and white pencil on paper
Maker Norton, Frank
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Looking aft under the bottom of one of the Liberty ships being constructed at Williamstown Dock. Right are the keel blocks - baulks of timber on either side, supporting the hull, Melbourne.