Aerial port side view of the Dutch patrol boat, PMB 33, cutting across Darwin Harbour. This craft ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Northern Territory, Darwin
Accession Number 302785
Collection type Photograph
Object type Unknown
Place made Australia: Northern Territory, Darwin
Date made 13 June 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Aerial port side view of the Dutch patrol boat, PMB 33, cutting across Darwin Harbour. This craft is a 70 foot Motor Torpedo Boat which was manufactured by the Canadian Power Boat Company and is one of a number built for the Royal Netherlands Navy. She is armed with two single .50 inch Browning machine gun mounts and two twin .50 inch Browning mounts fitted abreast of the superstructure and abaft of the main mast respectively. A 20 mm Oerlikon gun is also mounted aft. Depth charges are fitted along the sides and stern and radar is fitted to the masthead.