NAVY13456 Accession Number: NAVY13456

Description

A visitor arrives in a bosun's chair onboard the Guided Missile Destroyer HMAS Hobart after a highline transfer from the USS Kittyhawk (not pictured). British freelance journalist Mr Norman Barry-Maine stayed onboard for several days in order to prepare an article on warships in the Gulf of Tonkin for a Melbourne newspaper.

Details

Accession Number
NAVY13456
Photographer
Bevin Royce Stringer
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base
Date Made
7 May 1967
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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