The J Class Submarine, HMS J2, (later HMAS) travels up the Suez Canal, passing Ferry Post, ...

The J Class Submarine, HMS J2, (later HMAS) travels up the Suez Canal, passing Ferry Post, between Kantara and Port Said on her way from Portsmouth, England, to Sydney, NSW. Australian servicemen and women line the shore of the canal greeting the crew of the J2 who are standing on the deck. On the shore are stacks of iron rails and pipes, timber, storage drums and piles of rocks, neatly stacked in squares. The HMS J2 and her sisters, J1, J3, J4, J5 and J7, were gifted to the RAN by the British Admiralty after the conclusion of the First World War hostilities.