Java Sea. Bomb spray follows the British cruiser HMS Exeter, as Exeter and the Australian ...

Accession Number P02497.037
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Date made 15 February 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Java Sea. Bomb spray follows the British cruiser HMS Exeter, as Exeter and the Australian cruiser, HMAS Hobart, manoeuver during a Japanese air attack. A Dutch destroyer is at right. Exeter survived this attack to be later sunk in the Java Sea on 1 March 1942 by a torpedo from the Japanese destroyer, Inazuma. HMS Encounter and USS Pope were with the Exeter, and all three ships sunk off the southern coast of Borneo.

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