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Fairey 111F-coded 81 sometime before its crash at San Tin-HK-leading its flight above HMS Eagle

Submitted by IDJ on Wed, 2021-09-29 01:51

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1933

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Kowloon Wharves-HMS EAGLE aircraft carrier berthed-HK Telegraph-05-08-1939

Submitted by IDJ on Fri, 2020-08-21 22:00

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1939

I do not think we have seen an image of an aircraft carrier berthed at the Kowloon Wharves before? <Read more ...>

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HMS EAGLE-Fairey Gannets on deck-1966

Submitted by IDJ on Thu, 2020-03-26 23:07

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1966

I believe I took this photograph on an afternoon between 4-11 June 1966 from a HYF ferry departing from the Wanchai piers on Gloucester Road before the reclamation got going. Fairey Gannet anti-submarine aircraft are on the fore- deck rather than the Navy’s jets usually seen in that position in later images of HMS Eagle. This posting is related to https://gwulo.com/atom/35578#comment-52395 <Read more ...>

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HMS Eagle

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2020-03-14 16:20

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1937

Detail cropped from this photo: https://gwulo.com/atom/35577 <Read more ...>

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Harbour from mountain road.

Submitted by Andrew Suddaby on Thu, 2018-12-20 05:04

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1945

This photograph is a bit of a puzzle. I have no reason to suppose that it was not taken by Jack in 1945/6, because all the other photographs were taken on his camera and there are no commercial ones - probably not even available at that time. However, notice the two very old naval ships, especially the one moored alongside at the Royal Naval dockyard (was it called H.M.S. <Read more ...>