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• NEW SLOOP FOR THE ROYAL INDIAN NAVY LAUNCHED AT YARROWS YARD, ON CLYDEBANK, 22 APRIL 1943, WITH THE CEREMONY PERFORMED BY MRS GODFREY, WIFE OF VICE ADMIRAL V H GODFREY, CB.

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

  The bottle breaking against the bows of the ship as Mrs Godfrey launches the sloop.

• NEW SLOOP FOR THE ROYAL INDIAN NAVY LAUNCHED AT YARROWS YARD, ON CLYDEBANK, 22 APRIL 1943, WITH THE CEREMONY PERFORMED BY MRS GODFREY, WIFE OF VICE ADMIRAL V H GODFREY, CB.

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

  The new sloop going down the slipway.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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

  Shipbuilding: Riveters at work on a ship at the Armstrong Whitworth works in Sunderland, England.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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

  Shipbuilding: Women dockyard workers at the blacksmith's forge when the destroyer HMS ASHANTI was undergoing a refit at Immingham.

• LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Mason H A (Lt)

  Wartime Entertainers: The British comedian Tommy Handley rehearses with actors from his ITMA show and the Royal Marines band during a visit to the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow. ITMA (full title 'It's That Man Again') was one of the most popular radio shows...

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Coote R G G (Lt)

  Shipbuilding: Mrs Agnes Smith, a fifty year old mother of ten, was a forewoman of a Greenock shipbuilding yard. She had 45 women to look after and was experienced in most of their jobs herself. During the First World War she worked in an engineering shop...

• THE AMERICAN BASE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT LISAHALLY, NEAR LONDONDERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND, 28 JANUARY 1942

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

  Work in progress on the Western end of the wharf.

• THE AMERICAN BASE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT LISAHALLY, NEAR LONDONDERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND, 28 JANUARY 1942

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

  Work in progress on the wharf.

• AN AMERICAN BASE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT LISAHALLY, NEAR LONDONDERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND, 28 JANUARY 1942

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

  The eastern end of a wharf as seen from the foreshore.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

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

  Cordite production at a Royal Naval armaments factory at Holton Heath. The long strings of cordite are combed by women workers in order to eliminate short lengths.