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Unidentified medical personnel on board hospital ship TSS ORANJE II
Samuel J Hood Studio28 June 1941
Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia
This photograph depicts unidentified medical personnel on board TSS ORANJE II drinking at a bar. On 28 June 1941, after a refitting at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Prime Minister Robert Menzies hoisted a Red Cross flag on the Dutch liner TSS ORANJE. The ceremony marked the handing over of the vessel from the Dutch Netherlands Indies Government to the Australian and New Zealand Governments to be used as a hospital ship.
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- Title: Unidentified medical personnel on board hospital ship TSS ORANJE II
- Creator: Samuel J Hood Studio
- Date: 28 June 1941
- Location: Cockatoo Island Dockyard
- Type: Photograph
- Significance: The Samuel J Hood photographic collection records an extensive range of maritime activity on Sydney Harbour, including sail and steam ships, crew portraits, crews at work, ship interiors, stevedores loading and unloading cargo, port scenes, pleasure boats and harbourside social activities from the 1890s through to the 1950s. They are also highly competent artistic studies and views - Hood was regarded as an important figure in early Australian photojournalism. Hood’s maritime photographs are one of the most significant collections of such work in Australia.
- See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
- Medium: Silver gelatin print
- Dimensions: 153 x 205 mm
- Credit line: ANMM Collection
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