Souvenir miniature naval lifebuoy - HMAS Kanimbla - 2

HMAS Kanimbla was launched in December 1935 by Harland & Wolff in Belfast for McIlwraith McEachern Ltd. She operated as a luxury passenger motor vessel servicing Australian coastal ports, including routes between Cairns and Fremantle.
She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy on August 27, 1939, and converted into an armed merchant cruiser as HMS Kanimbla, despite being crewed mainly by Australians.
She patrolled Asian waters, intercepted enemy or contraband merchant ships from Occupied Europe, and participated in the strategic raid on the Iranian port of Bandar Shahpur in August 1941.
She was present in Sydney during the Japanese midget submarine attack in May 1942.
She was then converted into a Landing Ship Infantry (LSI) and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Kanimbla in June 1943. She supported amphibious landings at Morotai, Leyte Gulf, Lingayen Gulf, Borneo, and New Guinea until the end of the war. She was decommissioned in March 1949 and returned to her commercial owners in December 1950.

Battle Honours and campaign locations across the Pacific Theatre have been painted onto the souvenir lifebuoy.

There are two miniature lifebuoys relating to the HMAS Kanimbla in the collection. Both appear to have been by the same person as the writing style and design features are the same.
Souvenirs like this were often crafted by sailors onboard or produced as commemorative tokens for the crew following major victories.