The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Wooden sculpture of a seaman at the helm. Ship bearing red ten was commissioned in 1967, at the suggestion of the sculptor, for the new extensions to the main building at the Australian War Memorial. Adams was a Cape Horner whose experiences at sea inspired him to create this work. He explains:
"It is based on an officer-of-the-watch at a standard compass, a subject which [I] often saw at sea and in which [I am] attempting to get the feeling of tension which usually occurred when a strange ship appeared particularly at dawn and dusk. The men on the bridge or the compass platform assumed an air of mystery as they moved about".
Adams was commissioned during the Second World War to represent the activities of the Australian and US navies and the Merchant Marines in the South Pacific, and also worked in Britain, Rabaul and Japan.
Sculpture of a seaman at the helm. This was a plaster model for a sculpture of red cedar. Ship bearing red ten was commissioned in 1967, at the suggestion of the sculptor, for the new extensions to th
Night scene of the interior of the ship HMAS Kanimbla. Peter Churcher recalled, "This painting was done to show what it was like in the environment of the ship at night: the claustrophobic corridors a
Interior of a cabin in the Iraqi smugglers; ship in the South Persian Gulf. Churcher's diary entry reads, "Feb 12 [underlined] - today it was suggested that I board a small boat and go over to the Ira
This is a maquette study for the large scale memorial to the Merchant Navy, 'Survivors', by Dennis Adams. It was created at a scale of approximately four and half to the envisaged final memorial. A
Depicting a gun crew of five unidentified men on board M.S Bardistan, a Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship, at anti-submarine action practice in the Indian Ocean during a trip from Australia to India
The image is of a ship with one funnel and two masts. The ship flies the Red Ensign, the Mercantile Ensign of Great Britain. Its hull is painted black, with an upper thin white band and lower red ba