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Photograph 300310 Period 1940-1949PORT MELBOURNE, VIC. 1949-04-04. THE HEAVY CRUISER HMAS AUSTRALIA (II) IN HER POSTWAR CONFIGURATION. A TYPE 274 GUNNERY RADAR AERIAL IS MOUNTED ON THE MAIN ARMAMENT DIRECTOR WITH TYPE 285 ON THE AFTER
300306 Accession Number: 300306
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SYDNEY, NSW. C.1949. PORT SIDE VIEW OF THE HEAVY CRUISER HMAS AUSTRALIA(II) IN HER POSTWAR CONFIGURATION. A TYPE 274 GUNNERY RADAR AERIAL IS MOUNTED ON THE MAIN ARMAMENT DIRECTOR WITH TYPE 285 ON THE AFTER DIRECTOR JUST BEFORE THE MAINMAST AND ALSO ON THE SECONDARY ARMAMENT HIGH ANGLE DIRECTORS SIDED ON THE FORWARD SUPERSTRUCTURE. AN AERIAL FOR TYPE 277 SURFACE SEARCH RADAR IS ON PLATFORM FORWARD OF THE FOREMAST, REPLACING THE TYPE 273 LANTERN PREVIOUSLY MOUNTED ABAFT THE DIRECTOR. TYPE 293 TARGET INDICATION RADAR IS FITTED TO THE TOP OF THE FOREMAST. A TYPE 281B AIR SEARCH AERIAL IS FITTED ATOP THE MAINMAST. X TURRET HAS BEEN LANDED. NOTE THE QUADRUPLE 2 POUNDER AA GUNS MOUNTED ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF THE WAY TOWARDS TOWARDS THE STERN AND THE QUADRUPLE U.S. 40MM BOFORS AA GUNS MOUNTED BESIDE THE FORWARD SUPERSTRUCTURE AND THE WHIP AERIALS ON HER FORWARD AND AFTER FUNNEL. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION).
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