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A.M.C. on fire
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
Armed Merchant Cruiser (ex Blue Funnel Liner) on fire and sitting on Colombo Harbour bottom as the result of a Japanese air-raid a day or so previously. Smoke fills the right side of the image. Drawn ...ART23453
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A 'nor easter' or 'not entitled' (Lieutenant Peter Martin, Petty Officer George Howe)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Shows a situation during open muster payment on HMAS Napier. The bos'n's mate pipes "clear lower decks, hands fall in for payment abaft the tubes. A sailor is seen standing in the correct manner ready...ART22779
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Chipping ship's side, HMAS Napier
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The task of chipping and painting an iron ship is endless. Whenever possible, hands suspend themselves over the side in large numbers with shipping hammers, red leads and grey paint to fight the corro...ART22778
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HMAS Napier entering Colombo graving dock
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Showing HMAS Napier entering the dock from a bottom scraping etc., after returning from the Arakan. The natives, Sinhalan, Tamil's etc., employed around the dock, are seen tending the securing lines p...ART22777
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R.A.N. at Colombo
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
A street scene in Colombo showing two unidentified members of the Royal Australian Navy on shore leave about to start on a tour of the city by rickshaw, the cheapest and most effective means of explor...ART22775
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Souvenir hunters
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
A street scene in the Pettah, a trading centre of Colombo. Two unidentified Australian sailors are seen haggling with a Sinhalese jeweller about the price of a necklace, beating him down to one rupee ...ART22772
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Torpedo overhaul on HMAS Napier
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Royal Australian Navy, Admiralty Engineer Overseer; l-r: two unidentified Tamil boys employed as 'boiler boys' by Admiralty Engineer Overseer to help clean boilers, red-leading, painting and general c...ART23164