RELAWM31634 - Bomb Fragment : HMAS Manunda

RELAWM31634

ID number
RELAWM31634
Title
Bomb Fragment : HMAS Manunda
Maker
Unknown
Object type
Heraldry
Place made
Japan
Date made
Unknown
Physical description
Iron
Collection
Heraldry
Description
Piece of irregularly shaped iron shrapnel displaying part of a screw thread on one side and a milled surface on the other. The remainder of the piece is randomly damaged and torn. Some small pieces, foreign to the iron, have been fused to one side of the piece.
Summary
Bomb fragment collected from H.M.A.H.S. "Manunda". On 19th February, 1942, the hospital ship "Manunda", then at Darwin, was damaged during the first of two Japanese air raids on Darwin on that day. This large bomb fragment is stated by the donor to be part of the bombcase which made a direct hit on "Manunda". The donor was Second Chief Engineer aboard "Manunda" and on the morning after the raid, he found this piece of steel shrapnel embedded in a freezer door in Number 3 Hold.
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