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The officers and wardroom cook mixing the Christmas Pudding on board HMS HOWE.
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Star shells are fired from HMS ARK ROYAL after a collision a Russian KOTLIN guided missile destroyer off Crete, November 1970.
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Seamen sorting out waste paper on board a battleship, September 1942.
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A British sailor signalling by hand held flash lamp aboard the Dutch Torpedo Boat Z 5 as it serves with the British Fleet. His dutch shipmate is looking out for the reply through a pair of binoculars, 1941.
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Men of the Royal Navy's Coast Watch parade at a naval training establishment in Devon, 1940.
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HMS CUMBERLAND initiates her "pre-wetting" system designed to remove radioactive fallout, during testing in the Mediterranean, September 1955.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury conducts a service in the cinema at Flotta on Orkney during his visit to the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, 6 September 1942.
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The port eight barrelled Vickers two pounder Mk VIII 'pom-pom' gun in action during anti-aircraft practice on board HMS RODNEY, October 1940.
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A French sailor carrying fresh pineapples on board the submarine depot ship HMS MERCATOR at Freetown, Sierra Leone, August 1943.
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HMS CUMBERLAND during "pre-wetting" trials in the Mediterranean, April 1954. Pre-wetting was a method of removing radioactive 'fall-out' from the ship's surfaces.
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HMS VICTORIOUS underway at near Scapa Flow, 28 October 1941.
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HM Submarine TAKU returns home after a year's successful service in the Mediterranean, 3 August 1943.