Royal Australian Navy Promotional Poster of HMAS Ovens and a Wessex Ant-Submarine Helicopter

c. 1980

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2013.8.1

Item type

Prints

Themes

Defence > Navy

Material

Printing Paper

Width

487 mm

Height or length

345 mm

Weight

46 g

Inscriptions and markings

“HMAS Ovens and Wessex anti-submarine helicopter.” In bottom right corner.

Contextual Information

Official RAN photograph of HMAS Ovens, an Oberon class diesel electric patrol submarine, commissioned 18/04/1969 and decommissioned on the 01/12/1995. Flying along side is a Wessex anti-submarine helicopter, number 33.

This promotional poster is 1 of a set of 4 believed to have originated from Garden Island Naval Base, Western Australia.

Keywords

Hmas Ovens

Wessex Anti-Submarine Helicopter

Royal Australian Navy

Place made

Australia

Year

c. 1980

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Well provenanced

Google Maps search term / URL

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gWHZtRH1mm24SAjK8

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-35.030449, 117.912878

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