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SS British Motorist

Details:

Title

SS British Motorist,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Darwin Harbour,

Nation of service

United Kingdom,

Service

Merchant Navy,

Service branch

Tanker,

Unit

SS British Motorist,

Date arrived in NT

1942-02-11,

Date left the NT

1942-02-19,

History

Destroyed during the raid on Darwin 19 February 1942, the British Motorist was refloated by the Fujita Salvage Company in the 1950s and used as a base for salvaging all the sunken vessels in Darwin Harbour.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Merchant Navy, United Kingdom, Tanker, SS British Motorist,

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C255826 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 304978/01, Naval Historical Collection], http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/BRITISH-AMBASSADOR_CALDARE.pdf [SS British Motorist p.38], https://lant.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/951520605 [Tom Lewis Manuscript Collection 1989-1993], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=35134 [SS British Motorist],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843658,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843658

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843860,