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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97945

HMAS Hobart
(Australian Light Cruiser, 1936)

Steaming in the Coral Sea, west of Espiritu Santo, about two hours before she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, 20 July 1943.
Photographed from USS Nicholas (DD-449).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 85KB; 650 x 675 pixels

 

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24 April 2002