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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 80533

HMAS Hobart
(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 and after 6-inch guns. Deck planking has been removed by the ship's crew.
Note: the size of the torpedo hole; Jacob's ladder at left; and draft markings at right.

Collection of Admiral Harry W. Hill, USN (Retired), 1976.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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25 April 2002