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HMS Valiant 1927494 viewsPrefect

Pieta Boat House625 viewsPrefect

Building St Elmo Bridge 1906608 viewsPrefect

RFA Reliant 1938444 viewsBought 1933 and converted to Naval & Victualling Store Issuing ship. Med Fleet and victualling supply depot in Marsamuscetto, Malta until 1939. Then Mombasa and East Indies until 1946. Sold to Maltese owners 1948. Scrapped 1962.Prefect

HMS Cossack 1939519 viewsFamed for the Altmark Incident.2 commentsPrefect

Ferry before the Buses594 viewsPrefect

Dock Gard Creck (glaring typo for Dockyard Creek)685 viewsPostcard. Dromedary Class tug probably Restive.3 commentsPrefect

Ghar id-Dud before the Chalet803 viewsPostcard2 commentsPrefect

Mgarr 1929646 viewsExtension of Breakwater.
R.Ellis.1 commentsPrefect

HMS Achilles 1936526 viewsPrior to transfer to New Zealand.
As INS Delhi she played herself in the film The Battle of the River Plate in 1956.1 commentsPrefect

Fleur de Lis Gate546 viewsPostcard. Demolished by an RAF crane truck in 1943.Prefect

Diving at Sliema597 viewsNear the Tower, probably 1930s.1 commentsPrefect

Lascaris Power Station559 viewsBuilt 1895. Superceded by "Marsa A" in the 1950sPrefect

Boy Scout Headquarters629 viewsBuilt 1932 with memorial archway to Congreve. Bombed 1942 and rebuilt 1948.6 commentsPrefect

Auberge de Castille581 viewsWith Naval Signal Station from which from 1935, air raid practices were signalled.3 commentsPrefect

Pasteurized Milk660 views....was introduced in 1938, some thirty years after the link between Brucellosis (undulant fever aka Malta fever) and goats' milk was discovered.3 commentsPrefect

Marfa Palace Hotel722 viewsBuilt on Wied Musa Battery of 1716. Once the Governor's summer residence and later popular with honeymooners.
Now derelict.Prefect

Kingsgate557 viewsDecorated for the Coronation of KGVI 1937.Prefect

Kingsgate Bridge560 viewsBeing widened 1931.Prefect

St Luke's 1939566 viewsNearing completion. Prefect

St Luke's Hospital602 viewsDigging the foundations 1930. Completed 1940.Prefect

Duke of York Avenue598 viewsCompleted 1930 after 4 years at a cost of Â£35,000.Prefect

The Marina 1930633 viewsThe branch of the RN Canteen is demolished to incorporate an archway through to the Barracca Lift.Prefect

HMS Sultan Aground 1889565 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.
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Indian Army Camps 1878569 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

A Night at the Opera 1898468 viewsMephistopheles collects his due. A custom at the Opera House on "benefit nights".Prefect

Anglo-Maltese Relations 1878612 viewsPrefect

Shell Depot at Birzebbugia627 viewsOpened 1920.Prefect

Port des Bombes649 viewsBefore the guardrooms were removed in 1928.Prefect

Battleships631 viewsNelson & Malaya. Two County cruisers and RFA Boxol heading up the creek.Prefect

Pembroke Camp597 viewsAnd Military Cemetery?Prefect

Fort St Elmo608 viewsWith lighthouse and intact bridge.Prefect

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Tal-Handaq Nostalgia

Memories of the Royal Naval School, Malta, 1947 - 1978.

Before Our Time