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• ship
• cruiser
• royalnavy
• rn
• hmspowerful
• warship
• hmspowerful1895
• powerfulclass
• armouredcruiser
• armoredcruiser
• protectedcruiser
• impregnable
• trainingship
• powerhousemuseum
• dc:identifier=httpwwwpowerhousemuseumcomcollectiondatabaseirn30194
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• farmcove
• kirribilli
• bay
• steamer
• liner
• funnels
• smoke
• masts

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Farm Cove from Kirribilli

from Powerhouse Museum

• BobMeade said:

  I think the four-funnelled cruiser is HMS Powerful, flagship of the Australian Station, 1905 - 1912

• beachcomber australia said:

  The ferry looks like the 'Waringa', 1894 - www.ferriesofsydney.com/waringa.html

• beachcomber australia said:

  I think you are right, Lifeasdaddy - it looks like HMS Powerful en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HMSPowerfulCirca1905.jpg

• beachcomber australia said:

  Is the photographer standing in the grounds of Kirribilli House?

HMS Powerful

from Royal Australian Historical Society

• beachcomber australia said:

  " ... A Sydney Morning Herald journalist, Charles Bean joined the ship in August 1908 as special correspondent to report the visit of sixteen American warships — the Great White Fleet. At the time Powerful was flagship of the Royal Navy squadron on the Australian Station. Bean wrote a book, With the Flagship in the South (London, 1909), based on his reports, with photographs, drawings and a water-colour frontispiece by the author, and had it published at his own expense. ... " From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Powerful_(1895)

• beachcomber australia said:

  Charles Bean's book 'With the Flagship' is available to read online - archive.org/details/withflagshipinso00beaniala