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Verdala Barracks 1915557 viewsPrisoners of War.Prefect	HMS Repulse 1936-7556 viewsEntering the Floating Dock. Donald HPrefect	Ascot House556 viewsEarly in the war before it was bombed.Prefect	Visit Of King Edward VII 1903556 viewsFloriana, up from Port des Bombes. Railway Viaduct at right.Prefect
RFA Berbice555 viewsBuilt 1909 for Royal Mail. Requisitioned as Hospital Ship 1915. Sold 1922.Prefect	Victoria Gate555 viewsJohn ClarkPrefect	Back from Church555 viewsPrefect	HMS Guardian 1937555 viewsNetlayerPrefect
Isola Battery c1870555 viewsFrancis Frith. Museum Victoria.Prefect	Presentation of the George Cross554 viewsBy Lord Gort to the Chief Justice, 13 September 1942.Prefect	HMS Sandhurst Coaling c 1924554 viewsRepair ship, (out of shot) ex Brocklebank's Manipur. Destroyer D78 is HMS Wolverine.Prefect	Indian Army Camps 1878554 viewsTop - Cavalry near Attard. Bottom - Infantry on a mountainous Manoel Island. In 1878, the Indian government dispatched 7000 native Indian troops to the island of Malta. This was the first time the Indian Army was deployed outside the British Indian Empire, and questions regarding its constitutionality were raised in the British parliament. The move was seen as a signal, during the height of the Great Eastern Crisis, that Britain was ready to supplement its own forces with troops from India to counter any Russian threats to Turkey, or future wars in EuropePrefect
HMS Cyclops 1926553 viewsMartin Powell Submarine Depot Ship between the wars. Scrapped 1947.Prefect	Verdala Barracks 1916552 viewsPrisoners of War.Prefect	Porta Reale552 views The Army Gymnasium was built 1873 on St James Bastion. Replaced by the Vernon Club in 1919, it was identical to the main building at Verdala School.Prefect	Tigne Barracks - Football552 viewsPostcard6 commentsPrefect
Naval Cross Country 1934551 viewsMartin Powell Starting from Marsa?Prefect	Mosta 1920s551 viewsPrefect	St Luke's 1939551 viewsNearing completion. Prefect	Dockyard Fitting Shop 1943549 viewsPrefect
HMS Sussex 1937548 viewsDonald HPrefect	HMS Sultan Aground 1889548 viewsOn 6 March 1889 she grounded on an uncharted rock in the Comino Channel, ripping her bottom open. She slowly flooded and in a gale on 14 March 1889 she slipped off the rock and sank. She was raised in August and brought into Malta. After temporary repairs she was brought home to Portsmouth, undergoing modernisation and repair until 1896. She served in the reserve until 1906, became a training ship until sold 1947. Prefect	Pieta Creek early 1900s547 viewsThe boathouse is still there.Prefect	Holy Trinity Sliema 1880547 viewsPrefect
Auberge de Baviere et d'Angleterre547 viewsOn the English Curtain. Giorgio Sommer Prefect	Ponsonby's Column547 viewsOn St Andrew's Bastion before being struck down by lightning in 1864. Major General The Honourable Sir Frederick Cavendish PonsonbyPrefect	Kingsgate Bridge546 viewsBeing widened 1931.Prefect	Church of St Paul's Bonfire546 viewsSt Paul's Bay. Bombed 1943.Prefect
Lascaris Power Station545 viewsBuilt 1895. Superceded by "Marsa A" in the 1950sPrefect	Wholesale Veg Market544 viewsPrefect	RNH BIGHI544 viewsLaboratory R.EllisPrefect	Kingsgate544 viewsDecorated for the Coronation of KGVI 1937.Prefect
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