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59 photos and 1 illustration tagged defence, from 10 members of Flickr Commons.

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• civilian
• old
• people
• cold
• bus
• ferry
• river
• war
• exercise
• evacuation
• authority
• volunteers
• fake
• plan
• nuclear
• simulation
• kingston
• event
• civil
• planning
• practice
• hull
• volunteer
• emergency

Members using this tag

• East Riding Archives 33 photos & illustrations
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 10 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 6 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 5 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet 1 photo / illustration
• Australian War Memorial collection 1 photo / illustration
• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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Navy Sea League Cadets with signal flags at Snapper Island in Sydney

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• afiq arifin said:

  wow! oldies

• Alexander McCall said:

  I was a sea cadet on STD SNAPPER ISLAND from 1964 to 1968 we rowed 32 foot whalers we sailed them we beat the navy sailing them ..... trained in sailing 6 foot beamys clingers ,...... modif .303 enfields with .22 bore shooting on the port waste ......comps at HMAS Watson rifle shooting ....class instruction in seamanship ...... gym sports ....... weekend camps on the Island ..... relaxing in lounge area watching T.V. black and while only back on these days ........cooking ..... rifle drill ..... close quarters drill ....... weekend stays on different H.M . ships and bases .... working along side our commanding officer LEONARD E FORSYTHE showing us the way how to perform our duty the way he wants us to the letter . ..... just short note in some picture by the harbour trust saying ....... slipway and sheds ....... these so called sheds were in naval talk the heads meaning the dunny ( toliets and showers ) showers were run by a naked flame chip heater which you had to light yourself and water coming from the water tower above

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:

  Alexander McCall Wow! Were they like these?
  Sounds like it would have been fun being a cadet :)

Sir Robert Archdale Parkhill inspects a ship's figurehead at Snapper Island, Sydney

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• beachcomber australia said:

  'Twas on the Island Snapper Where sailors looked so dapper - The figurehead Was a girl in red - Thank God, with clothes to wrap 'er!

  [with a nod and a wink to The Good Ship Venus :-]

• beachcomber australia said:

  Terrific that the figurehead is safe in the ANMM Collection.

• excellentzebu1050 said:

  Fantastic in one word

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:

  beachcomber australia Cheeky song! :P Thank you! Australian examples of ship's figureheads are actually quite rare.

Visby City Wall, Gotland, Sweden

from Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet

• Britt-Marie Sohlström said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sweden before 1945, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Lars Lundqvist said: