Compass platform, HMAS Hobart

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Accession Number ART21055
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 46.8 x 58.2 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description carbon pencil heightened with white crayon on paper
Maker Norton, Frank
Date made 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Ship's 'bridge', navigational equipment, compass, rangefinder, chart locker; HMAS; unidentified personnel on compass platform l-r: officer of the watch, Captain's messenger, Navigating, Captain (seated), signalman; megaphone (at base of chart locker), two aircraft identification charts, one British Fighters and the other Italian aircraft, mattresses secured to roof of platform are protection against flying bomb splinters

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