H11880 Accession Number: H11880

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Rabaul, New Britain. 31 July 1917. The patrol vessel HMAS Una, formerly the German Administrative vessel SMS Komet which was captured by the Australian Navy & Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) in 1914.Better version held as H19014 (Donor T. J. McMahon)

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Accession Number
H11880
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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