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• PAULA GREEN ENTERTAINING AT HMS RAJALIYA, IN THE FAR EAST, JUNE 1945.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Miss Paula Green, the Blackpool born radio singer gives a song during 'stand easy' to maintenance ratings at HMS RAJALIYA, a jungle Royal Naval Air Station, part of the British East Indies Fleet. The Seafire they are servicing forms the background.

• JAPANESE SURRENDER AT SINGAPORE, 4 SEPTEMBER 1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  General Itagaki signing the terms for the reoccupation of Japan on board HMS SUSSEX.

• NOEL COWARD ENTERTAINS THE MEN OF THE EASTERN FLEET, HMS VICTORIOUS, TRINCOMALEE, CEYLON, 1 AUGUST 1944

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Noel Coward standing at the microphone on a flag-bedecked stage on the aircraft lift aboard HMS VICTORIOUS with Norman Hackworth at the piano.

• TRIALS OF NA-39, FLEET AIR ARM'S LATEST AIRCRAFT. FEBRUARY 1960, ON BOARD HMS VICTORIOUS, IN THE CHANNEL. CATAPULT AND DECK LANDING TRIALS OF THE BLACKBURN NA-39.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The Blackburn NA-39 (XK 523) piloted by Lieut Cdr Derek Whitehead, AFC, RN, Chief Test Pilot of Blackburns being catapulted for take off from HMS VICTORIOUS.

• TRIALS OF NA-39, FLEET AIR ARM'S LATEST AIRCRAFT. FEBRUARY 1960, ON BOARD HMS VICTORIOUS, IN THE CHANNEL. CATAPULT AND DECK LANDING TRIALS OF THE BLACKBURN NA-39.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The Blackburn NA-39 (XK 523) piloted by Lieut Cdr Derek Whitehead, AFC, RN, Chief Test Pilot of Blackburns.

• HMS BRAVE BORDERER, FIRST OF THE BRAVE CLASS FAST PATROL BOATS ACCEPTED FOR SERVICE BY THE ROYAL NAVY. JANUARY 1960, DURING TRIALS IN THE SOLENT. SHE WAS BUILT BY MESSRS VOSPERS LTD, AND HAS A TOP SPEED OF OVER 50 KNOTS.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  HMS BRAVE BORDERER, a fast patrol boat, during trials in the Solent, January 1960.

• THE BOARD OF ADMIRALTY. APRIL 1960, AT THE BOARD MEETING, THE ADMIRALTY, WHITEHALL.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Left to right: Mr C I Orr-Ewing, OBE, MP, Civil Lord; Vice Admiral L G Durlacher, CB, OBE, DSC, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff and Fifth Sea Lord; Admiral Sir Walter Couchman, KCB, CVO, DSO, OBE, Vice Chief of the Naval Staff; Admiral Sir Charles Lambe, GCB...

• CONSTRUCTION OF HMS DREADNOUGHT. 1960?, BARROW-IN-FURNESS SHIPYARD OF VICKERS-ARMSTRONG LTD. ADMIRALTY PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NAVY'S FIRST ATOMIC SUBMARINE DURING CONSTRUCTION.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The unfinished hull under construction.

• CONSTRUCTION OF HMS DREADNOUGHT. 1960?, BARROW-IN-FURNESS SHIPYARD OF VICKERS-ARMSTRONG LTD. ADMIRALTY PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NAVY'S FIRST ATOMIC SUBMARINE DURING CONSTRUCTION.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  From the size of the men at work here in the still unfinished hull it is possible to form some assessment of the beam measurement of the submarine.

• GUIDED WEAPONS TRIAL SHIP HOMEWARD BOUND. DECEMBER 1961, MALTA.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  HMS GIRDLE NESS leaving Malta for the United Kingdom after completing final trials of the Seaslug, guided missile.