• Title
  From Japanese Midget Submarine sunk in Sydney Harbour May 31st. 1942 [Souvenir made from an instrument instruction plate removed from Submarine]
• Call number
  R 877
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1942
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects, Textual Records
• Reference code
  152157
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 1 metal plate fixed to wedge-shaped wooden support at each corner with tacks. Beneath plate is a title plaque, also fixed at each corner with tacks. - plate measures 4.8 x 4.9 cm; title plaque measures 2.5 x 6.2 cm; face of wooden support measures 12 x 7.4 cm - base measures 11.9 x 7.4. - highest height 2.8 cm, lowest .7 cm
  Textual Records - typescript, 1 sheet of typescript on Commonwealth of Australia, Department of The Navy letterhead - 19.6 x 20.9 cm irregular
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Plate appears to be part of the Japanese Midget Submarine sunk in Sydney in May 1942
  A sheet of typed paper on Department of the Navy letterhead, and headed "Souvenir from Japanese Midget Submarine", accompanies this souvenir. It in part reads "This small Tally Plate was an Instruction Plate from an Electrical Instrument, which indicated in ampere-hours, the amount of energy expended by the main batteries of the Japanese Midget Submarine..." A translation of the plate then follows
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1063914
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled on plaque beneath Japanese instruction plate.
  Japanes script is printed on instruction plate
• Name
  World War (1939-1945)
  
• Topic
  midget submarines
  souvenirs
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1056811

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