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NH 80532 HMAS Hobart

Photo #: NH 80532 HMAS Hobart
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Title: HMAS Hobart
Description: (Australian Light Cruiser, 1936) View taken at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, on 23 July 1943, showing damage inflicted when she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine on 20 July. Photographed from off the port side, showing the ship's badly distorted stern, after 6-inch gun turrets, anti-splinter mats on the after superstructure and surface search radar (probably Type 271) at left. Collection of Admiral Harry W. Hill, USN (Retired), 1976. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 80532
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