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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 80534 HMAS Hobart (Australian Light Cruiser, 1936) View taken at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, on 22 July 1943, showing damage inflicted when she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine on 20 July. Photographed on the quarterdeck, looking forward from about 204 frame starboard side, showing the ship's badly distorted after deck and the after 6-inch gun turrets. Note: capstan, deck ventilators and debris. Collection of Admiral Harry W. Hill, USN (Retired), 1976. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 595 pixels

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25 April 2002