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Do you remember those long night watches when all of a sudden the teleprinter would burst into life and teleprinter

Here are a number of images for which the owner has no idea their origin or when they were taken.

Does anyone remember this incident?  Thanks Rob T for the image.

I have a couple of images of HMNZS Pukaki after she was in a collision with an LST.  Does anyone

Here is an interesting video of the greatest extraction of people from a single island in the shortest time.  

Here is an image of 3 young Signal Wrens from 1962.  The photograph was taken in the back garden of

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit

The ships log for HMS PHILOMEL from Oct 1913 – Dec 1915 are now all available for reading on the

Here is an image of a group of young Tels from Feb 1949, but who are they? Ray Thompson, Tom

Well Christmas is nearly upon us and another year of ups and downs is about to end.  On behalf of