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Photograph H18863 First World War, 1914-1918HMAS "YARRA" WITH CAPTIVE BALLOON ON SUBMARINE IN THE ADRIATIC SEA. (PHOTO PURCHASED FROM C N KING, CANBERRA)

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
C.1918. AUSTRALIAN DESTROYERS, ONE TOWING AN OBSERVATION BALLOON, ON SUBMARINE PATROL IN THE ADRIATIC SEA. (PHOTO PURCHASED FROM C N KING, CANBERRA)
HMAS "YARRA" WITH CAPTIVE BALLOON ON SUBMARINE IN THE ADRIATIC SEA. (PHOTO PURCHASED FROM C N KING, CANBERRA)

ADRIATIC SEA, 1918-09-14. HMAS PARRAMATTA TOWING HER KITE OBSERVATION BALLOON, ON SUBMARINE PATROL. (DONOR: P.C. SLAUGHTER)

A PHOTOGRAPH OF A DESTROYER TAKEN AFTER THE OBSERVATION BALLOON (?FROM HMAS PARRAMATTA) HAS REPORTED A SUBMARINE IN SIGHT, IN THE ADRIATIC SEA, ON 1918-09-02. (DONATED BY MR. P.C. SLAUGHTER.)

Australian destroyers on patrol in the Adriatic Sea. Note observation balloons in upper section of picture.
Distant view of the destroyer HMAS Parramatta towing a kite balloon at a speed of 25 knots. Kite balloons carried observers in a suspended basket. The observers were trained to look for shadows that

HMAS Warrego as seen from an observation balloon moored to one of the other Australian destroyers. The six ships of the Australian destroyer flotilla were patrolling the Adriatic, primarily in search
