The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Slightly bent steel crescent-section turbine blade, 140mm long. Top edges are damaged with notches. Included is a 100mm x 110mm display base of unknown material, painted black with Dynatape label. Blade has detached from base.
Label on makeshift display base states that this item was removed from the aft engine room, port side, of the County Class cruiser HMAS Canberra during a refit in 1935 at Cockatoo Island dockyards. Canberra had been built by John Brown & Co Ltd and commissioned in 1928, and was sunk off Savo Island on 9 August 1942.
Souvenir pennant of HMAS Shropshire. The pennant is navy blue with painted gold illustrations and text. At the top is a Royal Crown flanked on either side by a scroll. The left hand scroll contains
Officer's wardroom copper water jug taken from HMAS Canberra at the time of her sinking on 9 August 1942. The jug tapers towards the top, and has a curved handle riveted on to the body. The inside of
