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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.

• HMS HERMES, DURING "PRE-WETTING". JUNE 1961, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  HMS HERMES, with its array of water jets spraying in a Pre-wetting operation. The system of spraying exterior surfaces is used in HM Ships to free them of the effects of fallout which in wartime might be encountered on the fringe of a nuclear explosion.

• NATO NAVAL AND AIR EXERCISE "SHARP SQUALL FIVE". OCTOBER 1961, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH AT SEA IN THE NORTHERN APPROACHES TO THE UNITED KINGDOM. BRITISH, FRENCH, NETHERLANDS, AND PORTUGUESE FORCES TAKING PART IN A SMALL-SCALE NATO NAVAL AND AIR EXERCISE.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The Royal Netherlands destroyer GRONINGEN (left) and HMS SAINTES (right) preparing to refuel from the Royal Fleet Auxiliary WAVE CHIEF during the exercise.

• ROYAL NAVY SUBMARINES IN NATO EXERCISE. OCTOBER 1961, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA NAVAL BASE, USA.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  British Navy Submarine Depot Ship HMS FORTH, with four British Submarines alongside at the Norfolk Naval Base at the completion of NATO Exercise "Fishplay Six".

• BURIALS AT SEA

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

  Scene on board the coastal minelayer HMS PLOVER as she departs for sea carrying the body of Captain J G Bickford DSO, who was killed on board HMS EXPRESS, in preparation for a traditional burial at sea.

• THE ALLIED CAMPAIGN IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 6 JUNE 1944 - 7 MAY 1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Allen E E (Lt)

  The Battle for Normandy: HMS RODNEY shelling enemy shore positions prior to the British and Canadian attack on Caen, which was launched successfully on 8 July 1944.

• ROYAL NAVY CONVOY FROM ALEXANDRIA TO MALTA MEETS AND ENGAGES ITALIAN WARSHIPS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 22 MARCH 1942

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

  HMS CLEOPATRA throws out smoke to shield the convoy as HMS EURYALUS elevates her forward 5.25 inch guns to shell the Italian Fleet.

• THE ALLIED CAMPAIGN IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 6 JUNE 1944 - 7 MAY 1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Norway (Lt Cdr)

  D-Day, 6 June 1944: The White Ensign of a Naval Beach Party flying on the Normandy Coast as British troops move inland from the beached landing craft.

• ROYAL NAVY DESTROYER MANOEUVRES AT SCAPA FLOW, 1942

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

  A flotilla of destroyers led by HMS FURY at Scapa Flow.

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Adams, W L G (Captain)

  The Japanese Campaign and Victory 8 December 1941 - 15 February 1942: The battleship HMS PRINCE OF WALES leaves Singapore in search of a Japanese convoy. With no fighter protection the battleship and her companion HMS REPULSE were vulnerable to Japanese...

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

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

  Liberation and Repatriation August - September 1945: The Union Jack is raised at Stanley Civil Internment Camp, Hong Kong, watched by the internees.

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

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

  Occupation and Captivity February 1942 - August 1945: The living conditions at Stanley Civil Internment Camp, Hong Kong (photographed after liberation in 1945). Two internees are shown in a room normally occupied by seven.

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

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

  Occupation and Captivity February 1942 - August 1945: The meagre rations resulted in many cases of severe malnutrition. An Indian prisoner of war from Hong Kong is attended to by nursing staff (Sick Berth Attendant Hodson and Leading Sick Berth Attendant...

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939 - 1945

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

  Prisoners of war and internees at Stanley Civil Internment Camp, Hong Kong, who were tortured and executed by the Japanese, inscribed their names and dates of execution on their cell walls as a record. The photograph shows the inscription made by D W...

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

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

  Liberation and Repatriation August - September 1945: The Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten inspects the naval guard of honour outside the Municipal Building, Singapore, prior to the surrender ceremony held there.

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

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

  Liberation and Repatriation August - September 1945: Limbless prisoners of war from Hong Kong celebrate liberation on board the hospital ship OXFORDSHIRE. Left to right: R Jucke, Beausejoir, Manitoba, Canada; W Nunn, Colchester, England; J Smith,...

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beadell S J (Lt)

  Chief of Combined Operations: Mountbatten inspecting officers and men at a Combined Operations training base at Dundonald, (behind him in centre, Col G P Paul MC the Commander of the camp and Commander Robertson, Commander of the Signals).

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beadell S J (Lt)

  Chief of Combined Operations: Mountbatten inspecting members of a Royal Navy Beach Party.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beadell S J (Lt)

  Chief of Combined Operations: Mountbatten giving an address to naval signallers at a Combined Operations training base.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

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

  Destroyer Captain: Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten on the bridge of HMS JACKAL.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

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

  Destroyer Captain: Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten with other officers on the bridge of HMS KELVIN.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

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

  Destroyer Captain: Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten escorts HRH The Duke of Kent on an inspection of HMS KELLY at Devonport.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

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

  Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia: The Japanese surrender in Singapore: Admiral Mountbatten delivering an address on the steps of the Municipal Building at Singapore after the surrender ceremony.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

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

  Ships in which Mountbatten served: Detailed view of the midships section of HMS KELLY returning to the Tyne after being severely damaged by a German S-Boat off the Dutch coast.

• PLUTO (PIPE LINE UNDER THE OCEAN)

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

  The tug BRITANNIC joining up the 27 mile pipeline from England to France at Boulogne - the seventeenth pipeline between England and the continent.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

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

  Mountbatten arrives on board HMS GLASGOW at Malta to assume command of the Mediterranean Fleet.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

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

  Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia: Admiral Mountbatten being met by the Commanding Officer, Captain M M Denny, CB, CBE, RN (back to camera) as he is piped on board the aircraft carrier HMS VICTORIOUS at Trincomalee, Ceylon.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE COASTAL COMMAND, 1939-1945.

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

  An Avro Anson Mark I of No. 48 Squadron RAF, flying over and signalling to the destroyer HMS WHITEHALL during experimental tests with depth charge throwers.

• THREE ENEMY DESTROYERS SUNK IN 1 1/2 HOURS. 22 NOVEMBER 1944, ON BOARD HMS WHEATLAND, MALTA. THE HUNT CLASS DESTROYERS HMS WHEATLAND AND HMS AVONVALE SANK THREE ENEMY DESTROYERS WITHIN 1 1/2 HOURS ON 1 NOVEMBER 1944, IN THE ADRIATIC NEAR PAG ISLAND.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Roper, F G (Lt)

  Lieutenant T L Syms, RN, of Glasgow, the 1st Lieutenant (right) with Signalman W J Hatherway of Stratford on Avon, and Chief Yeoman R Patheyjohns, of Plymouth.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Fifi, the working elephant at RNAS Puttalam, Ceylon, tows a petrol bowser into position during refueling of Fleet Air Arm aircraft. A Fairey Swordfish, the Navy's oldest operational aircraft in 1944, is on the right. Chance Vought Corsairs, one of the...

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  A Grumman Wildcat fighter being winched aboard HMS EMPRESS at Norfolk, Virginia, USA during landing trials.