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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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Mess deck of HMAS Nepal, 7th Destroyer Flotilla
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Showing four unidentified sailors, of the crew HMAS Nepal, in the confined space of their living quarters. One is ironing a shirt, one sewing on a button, one is "flaked out", or relaxed, on a form, w...ART22776
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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