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HMS 'Australia': bow view, alongside a quay
The battlecruiser 'Australia' was built by John Brown & Co at Clydebank, launched on 25 October 1911 and completed in June 1913. This reasonably accurate drawing shows her as fitted in early 1918, with no foretopmast and an enlarged control top with a rangefinder on the roof. An awning is rigged over her forecastle and brows extend to the quay on the right. She flies the Australian flag as a jack and the location is probably Portsmouth Dockyard.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAE2749 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | Drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wyllie, William Lionel |
| Vessels: | Australia (1911) |
| Date made: | Early 1918 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
| Measurements: | 354 mm x 253 mm |