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Champion Boat's Crew 1882446 viewsFrench Creek1 commentsPrefect	RFA Maine (1)455 viewsMike Day Collection. The Hospital Ship is in Lazaretto Creek. Behind are probably the depot ships Leander (ex cruiser) & Tyne which are dressed with German Ensigns probably in honour of the Kaiser during his visit in 1904. In the background is the beginnings of Gzira with the RN Canteen and Manoel Island bridge. The story of the Maines.Prefect	1st Lincolns 1896436 viewsPrefect	Dockyard Chapel 1875456 viewsIn use in part of the sail loft from 1819, on Store Wharf above what became Church Tunnel. The original Dockyard School was in or near the same building. School History.-" (originally in or near the Chapel by the sail loft in the Sta Margherita Cospicua, area)"Prefect
RN Canteen, Corradino, 1931.506 viewsPrefect	Games & Merry-making 1896573 views"In the Piazza Maggiore is the Soldier's and Sailor's Home, an excellent charitable institution, furnished with a good serviceable library, a reading and writing room, smoking and other rooms. This admirably conceived and philanthropic organization is calculated to greatly benefit and improve the class for whom it is designed, affording them not only respectable accommodations, but occupation for their leisure hours. " (From The Story of Malta.)3 commentsPrefect	Our Great Mediterranean Naval Base 1915473 viewsPrefect	HMS Nile 1896401 viewsPrefect
Italian Training Ship449 viewsWhich could be either Cristoforo Colombo or Amerigo Vespucci. At right is the original 250 Ton Admiralty Crane Lighter No.4 which replaced the Macina in 1927 and was sunk at Boiler Wharf in April 1942. Despite the assertion by Bonnici & Cassar that it was raised & rebuilt, the post war Crane Lighter No.4 (Clive) appears to be an entirely different 150 Ton crane built by Cowans & Sheldon.Prefect	Dockyard 1930s416 viewsCyclops with the Subs and Valiant/Barham? Verdala Barracks & School on the skyline.Prefect	HMS Stuart356 viewsPrefect	Kingsgate441 viewsWith drawbridge.Prefect
The King378 viewsArriving in HMS Aurora, June 20 1943.Prefect	Grand Harbour 1930515 viewsTug is Respond or Roysterer.Prefect	Wreck of the Adjutant, Tigne 1884.528 viewsThe Tug is Escort. See more.Prefect	HMS Lancaster406 viewsPrefect
HMS Fareham 1937628 viewsHunt class minesweeper, in 1944-45 she was named St Angelo II, acting as a minesweeping base ship. Prefect	Duke of Edinburgh Cinematograph541 viewsPreceded the Alhambra.Prefect	HMS Resource 1936519 viewsPrefect	A Perspective 1794541 viewsPrefect
Verdala 19161184 viewsPrisoners of War at St Clements Camp, site of the later school.Prefect	Verdala Barracks 1916552 viewsPrisoners of War.Prefect	Verdala Barracks 1915557 viewsPrisoners of War.Prefect	Fort Tigne597 views© Dr. Stehen C. Spiteri Read all about it.Prefect
Fortifications456 viewsCourtesy of the Department of Information.Prefect	HMS Eagle465 viewsPrefect	HMS Eagle505 views On 11 August 1942 whilst still in the Malta bound convoy (Pedestal) she was hit by 4 torpedoes from the German Uboat U-73 and sank in position 38'05' N: 3'02' E.1 commentsPrefect	Founder of the Order474 views3 commentsPrefect
O not with arms reversed, 528 views And the slow beating of the muffled drum ... Poem.Prefect	Marsamuscetto, the Hydraulic Dock. 582 viewsBase for mine-sweepers, patrol trawlers and MLs. Watercolour from World War I by Frank Mason. © IWM (Art.IWM ART 3128)Prefect	Important Chap on Horse459 viewsProbably at the Marsa, crossing the Wied il Kbir channel.Prefect	Royal Garrison Artillery432 viewsAt St Elmo.Prefect
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