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Australian War Memorial (AWM) catalog number 301380

Sourced from: http://www.awm.gov.au/database/collection.asp

Copyright: The AWM record for this photo states that the copyright status is 'clear'. The photo was taken in 1945.

The AWM allows the use of images from its online database whose copyright has expired for non-commercial purposes only on the condition that the AWM's watermark is not removed. Higher resolution images may be ordered through the AWM (Source: email from the AWM to Nick Dowling 6 January 2006).

AWM Caption: C.1945. STARBOARD BOW VIEW OF THE SLOOP HMAS SWAN (II) IN THE EARLY POST WAR PERIOD. HER ORIGINAL MAIN ARMAMENT OF THREE 4 INCH MARK V GUNS AND A QUADRUPLE .5 INCH VICKERS MACHINE GUN HAS BEEN REPLACED BY FOUR 4 INCH MARK XVI GUNS ON TWIN MARK XIX MOUNTINGS IN A AND X POSITIONS AND A 40 MM BOFORS AA GUN IN B POSITION. THE SINGLE 20 MM OERLIKON AA GUNS CARRIED DURING HOSTILITIES HAVE BEEN LANDED. SC-1 RADAR IS FITTED TO THE MASTHEAD AND TYPE 276 RADAR IS ON A SMALL PLATFORM HALFWAY UP THE TRIPOD MAST WHICH HAS REPLACED THE ORIGINAL POLE MAST. TYPE 285 FIRE CONTROL RADAR IS MOUNTED ABOVE THE HIGH ANGLE DIRECTOR BEHIND THE BRIDGE. HER WARTIME CAMOUFLAGE SCHEME HAS BEEN PAINTED OUT. SHE HAS NO PENNANT NUMBER PAINTED UP AND HAS A BROAD BLACK STRIPE AT THE TOP OF HER FUNNEL INDICATING THAT SHE IS A SENIOR OFFICER'S SHIP, IN THIS CASE OF THE 20TH MINESWEEPING FLOTILLA. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

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The copyright has expired on this image. The AWM, however, requires that the AWM watermark is not removed and that permission be sought for commercial use. Higher resolution versions of this image may be ordered through the AWM Website at www.awm.gov.au

	This image was created in Australia and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired. According to the Australian Copyright Council (ACC), ACC Information Sheet G23 (Duration of copyright) (Sep 2005), generally copyright has expired as follows:
Type of material Copyright has expired if ...  A  Photographs or other works published anonymously, under a pseudonym or the creator is unknown: taken or published prior to 1955-01-01  B  Photographs (except A): taken prior to 1955-01-01  C  Artistic works (except A & B): the creator died before 1955-01-01  D  Published editions1 (except A & B): first published more than 25 years ago  E  Commonwealth or State government owned2 photographs: first published more than 50 years ago
1means the typographical arrangement and layout of a published work. eg. newsprint. 2owned means where a government is the copyright owner as well as would have owned copyright but reached some other agreement with the creator.

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• HMAS Swan (U74)
• Grimsby class sloop
• Portal:Military of Australia/Units/October
• Portal:Military of Australia/Units/October 6

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