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Royal Naval School Singapore

21 files, last one added on Jan 17, 2025
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Alexandra Grammar School

10 files, last one added on Feb 16, 2025
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Royal Navy in Singapore

10 files, last one added on Feb 16, 2025
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H M Naval Base Activity

29 files, last one added on Mar 27, 2025
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H M Naval Base The Housing

14 files, last one added on Mar 14, 2025
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H M Naval Base Sembawang

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Singapore Naval Base Japanese Occupation

6 files, last one added on Mar 27, 2025
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38 viewsRoyal Naval School Teachers 1963

Singapore Naval Dockyard - HMS Victorious 196429 views

Royal Naval Base School Class 196450 viewsRN School class photo taken by T K Lee on 17 Dec 1964. Colin Banks 5th from left back row.

Singapore Naval Base Housing - Wellington Road 199831 viewsView of housing on Wellington Road. Picture taken from the same spot as the photo taken in 1929 showing the houses under construction. In 1998 these houses were leased to the US Navy for their staff and families. It was interesting to learn that 'folklore' amongst the USN families was that these houses were built by the Japanese during occupation for their officers using forced British labour. The logic - each house had a 'Geisha' room at the rear. I guess it did look like a Geisha room but it was actually there for the Amah!

Royal Naval Base School. Bussing to school196852 viewsRN School 1968. Pupil being picked up from his home in the Naval Base to be taken to the RN School. A fleet of Naval coaches (probably 9 or 10) picked up the children from all over Singapore to bring them to the RN School in the Naval Base at Sembawang. Several Naval coaches also picked up the older students and transported them to the Alexandra Grammar and St John's Secondary Modern Schools in down town Singapore.

Singapore Dockyard - HMS Perseus 195327 viewsHMS Perseus arrives Singapore Naval Base with squadron of Whirlwind helicopters for RNAS Sembawang (HMS Simbang)

The Naval Base Theatre Club. 'The Secret Tent' 195953 views

Singapore Naval Base Housing - 87 Fiji Road 199750 views87 Fiji Road. In 1997 leased to the New Zealand Navy for use by their staff and families.

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Singapore Naval Base - Fishing in the Dockyard (2)123 views1963. Peter Banks after a nights fishing off a floating dock in the Naval Dockyard. A good catch of Ikan Tenggiri. (Malay name). A shoal of these fish were found to be circling a couple of metres down under the overhanging floodlights at the end of the dock. A difficult fish to eat due to the mass of small bones in the flesh but our amah pound the whole fish into a paste and made them into tasty fish balls. Mar 27, 2025

Singapore Naval Base - Fishing in the Dockyard125 views1964. Colin Banks holding up an Ikan Cermin (Malay name) caught whist fishing from a floating dock in the Naval Dockyard. A little bit of trick photography has been used for fun but it was a nice big fish. Because they are a flat and thin fish they are able to put up a tremendous fight when caught.Mar 27, 2025

Singapore Naval Base - Japanese Occupation. Dockyard Store Houses.53 viewsA view from Kings Avenue over the Stores Basin and Store Houses 1945. Note bomb damage to nearest store house roof. Photo curtesy of Mr Earland Clear. Chief Civil Engineer Singapore Dockyard 1945 - 1946 Mar 27, 2025

Singapore Naval Base - Japanese Occupation. Dockyard Main Gate47 viewsDockyard Main Gate 1945. As found after Japanese occupation. Note abandoned Japanese trucks. Photo curtesy of Mr Earland Clear Chief Civil Engineer Singapore Dockyard 1945 - 1946. Mar 27, 2025

Singapore Naval Base - Japanese Occupation. HMS Rotherham takes surrender97 views1945. September 6th. Captain of HMS Rotherham H W Biggs D.S.O.; R.N. sailed into Singapore Naval Dockyard and took the formal surrender of the Japanese 10th Zone Fleet. Although the dockside was deserted with just a small Japanese party to agree the surrender they found 34,000 Japanese on the base. 'Rotherham Gate' was named in honour of this event. Photo compliments of the HMS Rotherham Association.(Possibly now dissolved) Mar 14, 2025

Singapore Naval Base - Japanese Occupation. B29 Superfortress93 views1945. American Airforce B29 Superfortress aircraft over Singapore Royal Naval Base. One such raid sank the Admiralty Floating Dock IX allegedly after the Japanese had already surrendered.Mar 14, 2025

Singapore - German sailors march along Connaught Drive.97 views1945. 250 Germans including the Crews of U-boats 181 & 862 are marched along Connaught Drive. They kept spirits up by whistling and singing and marching in formation. They were later used by the British to carry out repairs to the Naval Base and Singapore. Photo compliments of Dieter Hille Chief Engineering Officer of U-181. Dieter and a few of his crew were picked by the Royal Engineers to repair an Ice Making Factory in Singapore. They succeeded after which Japanese PoW's were used to manhandle the ice.Mar 14, 2025

Singapore Naval Base - Japanese Occupation U-Boats53 views1945. German U-boats U-181 and U-862 alongside IJN battleship 'Myoko'. The U-boats were trying to trade mercury for raw materials for Germanys high spec steel manufacture but were trapped in Singapore after the fall of Germany. The Japanese commandeered the subs and renamed them I-501 and I-502 respectively. Photo compliments of Dieter Hille Chief Engineering Officer of U-181 who was 'requested' to train the Japanese to operate his boat. Dieter and the crews were kept in huts just outside Changi Prison. Mar 14, 2025

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