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St George's Bay588 viewsfrom Villa RosaPrefect	Balluta Bay 1942567 viewsThe Carmelite Church and Convent with the 'monumental' Balluta Buildings .jane banks	Mosta 1920s551 viewsPrefect	HMS Cardiff 1930s481 viewsThe Captain's DeparturePrefect
Old Postcards574 views2 commentsPrefect	A non PC Picnic 1870s655 views2 commentsPrefect	Breakwater Foundation Stone640 viewsLaid by King Edward VII at Ricasoli 1903.2 commentsPrefect	Spinola588 viewsLong ago. The boathouses survive with buildings on top.Prefect
Dragonara Palace590 viewsBefore Paceville had been invented.Prefect	Tigne - Before the barracks.680 viewsPrefect	The Sliema terminal of the Ferry 1915780 viewsJane Banks3 commentsPrefect	The Valletta terminal of the Ferry 1930657 viewsCompare Tigne Point todayPrefect
Studio Portrait of a Goat521 views Malta Fever (Brucellosis) was identified by Sir David Bruce in 1887, and later found to be spread by goat's milk. The Mtarfa Hospital was named after him.Prefect	Presentation of the George Cross554 viewsBy Lord Gort to the Chief Justice, 13 September 1942.Prefect	Legend or Myth?659 views3 Gloster Sea Gladiators over Malta 1940. SEE THE "TRUE "STORY1 commentsPrefect	VIP Visitor 1900618 viewsMr Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, is greeted by the Governor at Customs House having disembarked by the Ceremonial Gondola.Prefect
An Admiral's Funeral 1902543 viewsPrefect	HMS Nile 1898603 viewsCaptain Churchill is piped aboard.1 commentsPrefect	HMS Benbow coaling ship.1920s.577 viewsPrefect	Victorian Naval Officers posing537 viewsPrefect
HMS Polyphemus, Dockyard Creek, c1900.711 viewsThe third HMS Polyphemus was a Royal Navy torpedo ram, serving from 1881 until 1903. A shallow-draft, fast, low-profile vessel, she was designed to penetrate enemy harbours at speed and sink ships anchored in it. Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby as primarily as a protected torpedo boat, the ram was provided very much as secondary armament.Prefect	A plan of Grand Harbour.735 viewsShowing the Cottonera Lines. Circled is the St Clement's Bastion and Parade Ground which may be of interest to our Verdala viewers.3 commentsPrefect	The Breakwaters568 viewsBuilt between 1903 - 1909 with concrete blocks from Cala Mistra (St Paul's Bay) and stone from Gozo. Designed not only to keep out the Gregale but also to prevent anyone from firing a torpedo the length of the harbour. (Interestingly prior to this the Spencer Monument had been moved from Corradino to its present position to deny an aiming point). The slightly unfortunate result of the effectiveness of the breakwaters was the dog leg in the new steaming course which caused more than one ship to come to grief on Imgherbeb Point!Prefect	1943665 viewsMartin Powell A Press Association photo showing Farmer Paul Borg, somewhere back of Kalkara, surveying bomb damage. But with the vegetation growth over the ruins, do we believe them?Prefect
Dockyard Creek. Late 1800s748 viewsMartin Powell Can anyone see the Verdala Palm Tree?5 commentsPrefect	Naval Cross Country 1934551 viewsMartin Powell Starting from Marsa?Prefect	Escape not Permitted!629 viewsMartin PowellPrefect	HMS London663 viewsMartin Powell In No.4 Dock 1930sPrefect
RNH Mtarfa791 viewsAfter the First World War there was a re-organization of the military medical services on the Islands. The Mtarfa Hospital, commissioned in 1912, was opened on the 29th June 1920, even though it had been in use for some time earlier. During the Second World War, the Mtarfa Hospital and barracks were reorganized as the 90th General Hospital and built up to a maximum of 1200 beds. An underground hospital was excavated under the military hospital. After the war the 90th General was reformed as the David Bruce Military Hospital. This continued to serve the military, complementing Bighi Naval Hospital, until 1970. For the next eight years, the Mtarfa Hospital served the needs of British military and naval personnel until its closure in 1978.1 commentsPrefect	Gallipoli casualties at Tigne Hospital682 viewsFULL STORY SERVICE HOSPITALS http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/2615/medhist/hospital3.htmPrefect	Ghajn Tuffieha Hospital Camp770 viewsOther hospitals and hospital camps were set up including: the Hamrun Hospital, St. Andrew's Hospital, St. George's Hospital, St. Paul's Hospital (close to St. Andrew's), St. David's Hospital and St. Patrick's Hospital, St. John's Hospital (in the Sliema Primary School), St. Ignatius Hospital (in the old Jesuit College in St. Julians), Tigne Hospital, St. Elmo and Baviere Hospitals in Valletta, Manoel Hospital, the Blue Sisters' Hospital and the Ghajn Tuffieha Camp. FULL STORY SERVICE HOSPITALS Prefect	Cottonera Hospital (Zabbar Gate)751 viewsDuring the First World War, like the Crimean War period, Malta served as a "Nurse of the Mediterranean". From the Gallipoli campaigns 2500 officers and 55400 troops were treated in the Maltese hospitals, while from the 1917 Salonika campaigns 2600 officers and 64500 troops were treated. The Valletta Station Hospital served as a sorting base for the wounded arriving in the hospital ships prior to their being transferred to the other 30 hospitals and camps scattered over the Islands. The Valletta Hospital itself was reserved for dangerously ill cases that could not be safely moved. The principal hospitals and camps used were the commissioned Naval and Military hospitals: Bighi Naval Hospital, Valletta Hospital, Cottonera Hospital, Forrest Hospital, Mtarfa Hospital (commissioned in 1912) and Chambray Convalescent Depot. Prefect
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