Artwork, other - Screenprint, P.J. Murphy, Australian Merchant Navy Day, c. 2014

Historical information

September 3rd is the day chosen to honour all those seafarers who sailed, and died, in commercial vessels in times of war in memory of September 3rd, 1939 when the transatlantic passenger liner, Athenia, was torpedoed and sank just hours after World War II was declared.

Physical description

Framed artwork printed on textile

Inscriptions & markings

Written in ink on verso: "Rachel / SOLD Y"

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