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.

Object Details

ID: PAE2749
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
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