Territory Stories

HMAS Albatross

Details:

Title

HMAS Albatross,

Photographer

Young, Mayse, 1913-,

Photo number

PH0200/0498,

Collection

Mayse Young Collection, PictureNT, PictureNT,

Date

1932-09-06,

Description

6,000 ton seaplane carrier HMAS Albatross and cruisers HMA ships Canberra and Australia arrived Darwin 6 September 1932. Albatross was built at Cockatoo Island dockyard (NSW) (commissioned 23 January 1929) and equipped with six supermarine seagull mark III seaplanes of the RAAF's no 101 flight. No local flying was reported and Albatross left Darwin on 15 September. Albatross was 'paid off' on 26 April 1933 and transferred to the Royal Navy 19 April 1938.,

Language

English,

Digital format

3921 x 6000 pixels : 24bpp ; 68.94Mb,

Format

1 photograph : b&w ; 10.8 x 16.1 cm,

File type

image/tiff,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

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

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/13119,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/787223

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/734060,