Frank Norton's wartime painting of Achilles closes the operational story with a visual source. Held by New Zealand's national archives, it depicts the cruiser around the time she became HMNZS Achilles. The painting preserves the ship through art as well as official battle records. It also places New Zealand's relationship with the cruiser within the cultural memory of Dominion naval service. Viewers can see how a wartime ship became a subject of national commemoration.
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Frank Norton's Achilles painting and Dominion naval memory
A New Zealand archival painting of Achilles turns the cruiser from a wartime combatant into a subject of Dominion art and public memory.