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560 photos and 26 illustrations tagged royalnavy, from 27 members of Flickr Commons.

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• The Library of Congress 132 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 101 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 81 photos & illustrations
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 54 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 53 photos & illustrations
• IWM Collections 34 photos & illustrations
• British Library 24 photos & illustrations
• Navy Medicine 21 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 16 photos & illustrations
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 13 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Australia 11 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 8 photos & illustrations

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M.J. Woodworth (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  On the S.S. Majestic.
  Possibly Melvin J. Woodworth, editor of the New York News Bureau as mentioned in
  timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/12/30/11820551...
  and
  timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/12/05/12918712...

• Richard Norton said:

  It is him, he matches his passport image. I created an entry for him:
  Melvin Johnson Woodworth (1880-1950)
  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125352434
  He took his own life in 1950 by hanging himself.

• Jon (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks swanq and Richard Norton, we'll update his catalog record.

The British have landed...

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 8 older comments, and then…
• derangedlemur said:

  A fishery patrol vessel at the time of this photo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Malcolm_(F88)

• beachcomber australia said:

  8 September 1960 was a Thursday ...

• beachcomber australia said:

  Flickr is sometimes amazing! In Norway via Steve Knight Hello sailors! Via Sean O'Hagan (on the left)

• Niall McAuley said:

  All changed, changed utterly in Streetview

• beachcomber australia said:

  "... The British Navy fishery protection vessel Malcolm (1,500 tons) fla[g]ship of the R.N. Protection Squadron commanded by Captain H.H. Bracken arrived for a five day visit in Dublin Linc[o]ln and Nolan of Dublin supplied two Austin cars for the use of the officers during their stay and handed over the keys to the navy men on arrival. ..." See - irishphotoarchive.photoshelter.com/image/I0000CCQz1qIjM5g

Mrs. Ada B. Hicks and Dr. C.H. Muncie (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Richard Norton said:

  Curtis Hamilton Muncie (1887-1963) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108330254 Ada Belle Hicks www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108330705 They will marry on 17 July 1930 in Manhattan.