HMS  'Australia': bow view, alongside a quay<br>
The battlecruiser 'Australia' was built by John Brown &amp; Co at Clydebank, launched on 25 October 1911 and completed in June 1913.  This reasonably accurate drawing shows her as fitted in early 1918, with no foretopmast and an enlarged control top with a rangefinder on the roof.  An awning is rigged over her forecastle and brows extend to the quay on the right. She flies the Australian flag as a jack and the location is probably Portsmouth Dockyard.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:William_Lionel_Wyllie" class="extiw" title="w:en:William Lionel Wyllie"><span title="English painter of maritime themes (1851-1931)">William Lionel Wyllie</span></a>
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early 1918 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1918-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P4241,Q40719727</div>
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