Historical information
Photographs collected by Earnest Albert Simmons W/2129 Royal Australian Navy. Enlisted 30 June 1941 and discharged 14 October 1946 with the rank of Leading Stoker. Posting at discharge was HMAS Lonsdale.
Physical description
.1) Ship
.2) Submarine conning tower
.3) Ship
.4) Hospital ship
.5) Ship at anchor
.6) Launch at ships side
.7) Ships at anchor
.8) Sunken ship
.9) Ship
.10) Group on launch
.11) Ship firing a broadside
.12) Wooden sailing vessel
.13) Ship
.14) Ship
.15) Pilot station
.16) Ship
.17) Ship
.18) Ship.s deck and biplane
.19) Partially sunken ship
.20) Two ships
.21) Ship
.22) Ship - damaged
.23) Ship
.24) Statue and colonade
.25) Searchlights
.26) Ships deck at sea
.27) Aircraft
.28) Ship
.29) Ship
.30) Troop ship
.31) Swimmers at ships side
.32) Ship
.33) Ship
.34) Ship deck at sea
.35) Ship
.36) Submarine
.37) Ship
.38) Ship
.39) Ship
.40) Two ships at sea
.41) Ship
.42) Aircraft carrier
.43) Ships symbol
.44) Sketch of Berbera
.45) Sketch of biplanes
.46) Boat at pier
.47) Tug boat
.48) Ship
.49) Ship at wharf
.50) Ships at wharf
.51) Aircraft carrier
.52) Ship
.53) Ship at wharf
.54) Ships at wharf
.55) Ship
.56) Two ships
.57) Tug boat
.58) Diagram comparing the size of two ships
.59) Ship sailing past lighthouse
.60) Postcard HMAS "Stuart".
Inscriptions & markings
.1) Hobart and Glascow at Colombo
.2) British submarine returning to Alexandria after claiming a victory - note Skull and X Bones
.3) HMS Glascow at Colombo
.4) Ex Italian hospital ship taken over by British. RAMB II
.5) HMS Exeter
.6) The landing party returning
.7) Part fleet at Colombo
.8) British ammunition ship sunk by sabotage in Alex Harbour
.9) HMS Exeter
.10) On the approach of the island. Note twin Lewis guns
.11) HMS Ajax bombarding Bardia
.12) A native boat used along coasts and Indian Ocean
.13) RMS Georgie refoated at Pt? 1941
.14) HMS Carthage
.15) Pilot station at Colombo
.16) Aquitania
.17) Ajax on patrol with Hobart and battle fleet
.18) Hobart rolling in the Bight
.19) HMS Gnat (river gun boat) hit by torpedo at Tobruk
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.21) Mauritania
.22) Italian cruiser sunk by HMAS Sydney
.23) Greek destroyer
.24) Memorial of Mohomed Pasha Alexandria. Presented by Musso
.25) Searchlight at Alexandria
.26) Hobart pile driving in heavy weather
.27) Lockheed Hudson dive bombing
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.29) HMS Galatea? x 1 turret at stern
.30) Troops on Aquitania
.31) Boys swimming in the middle lakes at Ismalia in the centre of Sues Canal
.32) A water NG ?
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.34) Hobart striking heavy weather
.35) HMS Jupiter
.36) British submarine entering Alex
.37) Queen Mary
.38) Queen Elizabeth
.39) Nieuw Amsterdam
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.41) Achilles
.42) HMS Aircraft carrier - Illustrious
.43) Symbol of Hobart's Pom-Pom
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.45) -
.46) -
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.48) Mohoja and Oronties
.49) Mohoja
.50) -
.51) -
.52) HMAS Murchison 1954
.53) Strathmore
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.55) -
.56 -
.57 -
.58) HMAS Vendetta
.59) HMAS Cowra
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