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'OTAKI fighting to the last'
AC/01832/00
Object category: PAINTING
Date made: c.1940s
Maker: PELLETT, Stanley
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Material/medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
- sight: 50 x 75.3 cm; outside frame: 57 x 82.3 x 3.5 cm
OTAKI still firing against the German surface raider MOEWE as she sank on 10 March 1917 during WW1. The Commander of MOEWE later recalled: 'Our situation is far from happy; the enemy lies there, refusing to sink, and firing shot after shot... Half an hour later, hammered and torn by our guns, but still firing, she sinks beneath the waves'.