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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.

• BRITISH AND US AIRCRAFT CARRIERS CROSS OPERATING. NOVEMBER 1961, ON BOARD HMS VICTORIOUS, DURING EXERCISE "CROSSTIE" IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA. HMS VICTORIOUS AND THE US CARRIER TICONDEROGA ALONG WITH THEIR ESCORTS TOOK PART IN THE EXERCISE, DURING WHICH BRITISH SEA VIXEN, SCIMITARS, GANNET AND WHIRLWIND AIRCRAFT OPERATED FROM THE TICONDEROGA WHILE US NAVY SKYHAWK, DEMON AND SKYRAY AIRCRAFT OPERATED FROM THE DECK OF THE VICTORIOUS. THE AIRCRAFT EXERCISED ARMING WITH WEAPONS OF THE OTHER NATION AND BRITISH AND AMERICAN AIRCRAFT WERE DIRECTED FROM EITHER THE OPERATIONS CENTRES OF VICTORIOUS OR TICONDEROGA.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A Skyhawk (light attack bomber) from TICONDEROGA being catapulted from VICTORIOUS.

• BRITISH AND US AIRCRAFT CARRIERS CROSS OPERATING. NOVEMBER 1961, ON BOARD HMS VICTORIOUS, DURING EXERCISE "CROSSTIE" IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA. HMS VICTORIOUS AND THE US CARRIER TICONDEROGA ALONG WITH THEIR ESCORTS TOOK PART IN THE EXERCISE, DURING WHICH BRITISH SEA VIXEN, SCIMITARS, GANNET AND WHIRLWIND AIRCRAFT OPERATED FROM THE TICONDEROGA WHILE US NAVY SKYHAWK, DEMON AND SKYRAY AIRCRAFT OPERATED FROM THE DECK OF THE VICTORIOUS. THE AIRCRAFT EXERCISED ARMING WITH WEAPONS OF THE OTHER NATION AND BRITISH AND AMERICAN AIRCRAFT WERE DIRECTED FROM EITHER THE OPERATIONS CENTRES OF VICTORIOUS OR TICONDEROGA.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A Demon (carrier based single-seater fighter) from TICONDEROGA lands on VICTORIOUS.

• SEACAT TRIALS. FEBRUARY 1961, ON BOARD THE DESTROYER HMS DECOY, IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The Royal Navy's latest close-range ship-to-air guided missile, the Seacat (formerly the Short SX-A5) is fired from the destroyer HMS DECOY during the first sea trials in the English Channel.

• CANBERRA AT MALTA FOR GUIDED MISSILE TRIALS. JUNE 1961, ROYAL NAVAL AIR STATION HAL FAR, MALTA.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The first Canberra U Mk 10 jet plane, which will be used as a pilotless drone aircraft in the Seaslug guided missile trials from HMS GIRDLE NESS later in 1961.

• THE ROYAL NAVY GOES IN AS TRISTAN ERUPTS. OCTOBER 1961, ON THE ISLAND OF TRISTAN DA CUNHA. THE FRIGATE HMS LEOPARD SENT A LANDING PARTY TO THE ISLAND AFTER A VOLCANIC ERUPTION HAD FORCED THE EVACUATION OF THE ISLANDERS.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Part of the landing party from the frigate HMS LEOPARD ashore at Tristan da Cunha with the smouldered volcano in the background.

• THE FIRST ROYAL MARINE HELICOPTER PILOT. OCTOBER 1961, SINGAPORE. UNDER A SCHEME TO PROVIDE THE ROYAL MARINE COMMANDOS WITH A PROPORTION OF THEIR OWN AVIATORS, 24 YEAR OLD ROYAL MARINE LIEUTENANT ROGER LEAROYD OF WATLINGTON, OXFORDSHIRE, IS THE FIRST OFFICER OF THE CORPS TO SPECIALIZE AS A HELICOPTER PILOT.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Lieut Learoyd, RM, at the controls of a Whirlwind helicopter during his flying training in Singapore.

• THE ROYAL NAVY GOES IN AS TRISTAN ERUPTS. OCTOBER 1961, ON THE ISLAND OF TRISTAN DA CUNHA. THE FRIGATE HMS LEOPARD SENT A LANDING PARTY TO THE ISLAND AFTER A VOLCANIC ERUPTION HAD FORCED THE EVACUATION OF THE ISLANDERS.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The landing party from the frigate HMS LEOPARD (in the background) landing on Tristan Da Cunha.

• BRITISH AND US AIRCRAFT CARRIERS CROSS OPERATING. NOVEMBER 1961, ON BOARD HMS VICTORIOUS, DURING EXERCISE "CROSSTIE" IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA. HMS VICTORIOUS AND THE US CARRIER TICONDEROGA ALONG WITH THEIR ESCORTS TOOK PART IN THE EXERCISE, DURING WHICH BRITISH SEA VIXEN, SCIMITARS, GANNET AND WHIRLWIND AIRCRAFT OPERATED FROM THE TICONDEROGA WHILE US NAVY SKYHAWK, DEMON AND SKYRAY AIRCRAFT OPERATED FROM THE DECK OF THE VICTORIOUS. THE AIRCRAFT EXERCISED ARMING WITH WEAPONS OF THE OTHER NATION AND BRITISH AND AMERICAN AIRCRAFT WERE DIRECTED FROM EITHER THE OPERATIONS CENTRES OF VICTORIOUS OR TICONDEROGA.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A Skyraider aircraft from USS TICONDEROGA lands on HMS VICTORIOUS.

• THE ROYAL NAVY 1945-1975

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

  Wearing her paying-off pennant, HMS BELFAST enters Singapore. The cruiser was played into harbour by three bands, those of the Commander in Chief, HMS HERMES and the Gurkha Brigade. The forward end of HMS HERMES's flight deck is seen on the left.

• THE ROYAL NAVY 1945-1975

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

  During Exercise Pony Express off Borneo, the RFA TIDEREACH refuelling three ships simultaneously, the frigate HMS YARMOUTH (left), the New Zealand cruiser ROYALIST (right) and, in rear, HMS BELFAST.