Tal-Handaq Nostalgia

Memories of the Royal Naval School, Malta, 1947 - 1978.


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3327 in later life388 viewsHaving emigrated3 commentsPrefect
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Troopship Lancashire311 viewsDavid Woolfenden
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Our new car ©355 viewsDavid Woolfenden
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Troopship Devonshire ©332 viewsDavid Woolfenden
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Troopship 1950s347 viewsProbably DilwaraBrian Shackleton
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Porta Reale Station368 viewsPrefect
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Museum Station329 viewsPrefect
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Birkirkara Station391 views2 commentsPrefect
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Mosta/Naxxar321 viewsAfter the merger of these routesPrefect
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A Kosher Sliema Bus ©370 views1 commentsPrefect
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A Very Shiny Sliema Bus?341 viewsNo, a failed attempt to turn back the clock on a post 1977 bus. Fake number plate, route sign and the waistband should be dark green.Prefect
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Was this your School Bus?383 views3 commentsPrefect
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Constellation at Luqa 1976369 viewsIn service as a bar.Prefect
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Box Boat CMA CGM Otello at Marsaxlokk378 viewsMarseilles-registered 8238 TEU container vessel.
They are getting bigger so the container terminal at Kalafrana is to be expanded to cope.
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Empress of Australia310 viewsBuilt as TIRPITZ for Hamburg-Amerika Line by Vulcanwerke, A.G at Stettin, Germany
21,861 GRT - 615 x 75 feet - Twin screw, turbines - 17 knots
370 First class, 190 Second Class, 415 Third Class, 1,000 Steerage
Troopship from 1939, in which the Spear family went home in 1951. Scrapped 1952.
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Valletta Station370 viewsPostcard. Written on the back - " This will give you a glimpse of the only railway in Malta which runs only a few miles to the old capital Citta Vecchia. The full fare is only 31/2d. It is quite a Puffing Billy affair. It will tell you what its like when I say that when the train is rather crowded, they sit on the footboards. I've done it myself."Prefect
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Scythia 1948329 viewsCunard's SCYTHIA of 1920 while serving as a troop transport. She was released from trooping service later that year and refitted as a liner again. Scrapped in 1958.
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Site of Attard Station ©304 viewsPrefect
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But the cats can't read! ©379 views1 commentsPrefect
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Imperial Eagle at Mgarr 1965336 viewsPostcardPrefect
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Landing in Sliema Creek ©354 views1 commentsPrefect
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Taking off in Grand Harbour ©319 viewsPrefect
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Tram at Hamrun398 viewsPrefect
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Attard Station411 viewsPrefect
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Hamrun Station565 viewsPrefect
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Sliema Ferry 2006 ©334 viewsIn June 1991 the company Marsamxett Steamferry Service Ltd started operating the ferry service again. For this service, the MV Cominotto, built in 1940, started service. She was originally used by the Royal Navy to transport patients to Bighi hospital.Prefect
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Caronia 1950392 viewsThe Green Goddess. Built 1949, sold 1968, wrecked/scrapped 1974.
Admiralty tug Respond in attendance.
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Chusan 1969296 viewsP&O. Built 1950, scrapped 1973.Prefect
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Cameronia 1952385 viewsAnchor Line, built 1920. Requisitioned as troopship 1940 - 47. Then emigrant ship until 1953 when bought by MOT as troopship and renamed Empire Clyde. Scrapped 1957.Prefect
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Grand Harbour 1962450 viewsPerhaps Prefect can identify ships?1 commentsrobinwilliams
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View of Vitoriosa 1962399 viewsrobinwilliams
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Staff at the Tram Depot453 viewsThe Malta Tramways were set up by the British corporation Macartney, McElroy & Co. Ltd. Construction of the lines began in 1904, with the main terminus being built in Porta Reale, Valletta, so that lines would run over Floriana and Hamrun, at which point they would diverge to different urban centres, including the Three Cities of the Cottonera and Zebbug, passing through Qormi. An extension to cover Birkirkara was later added to the original schedule. After 24 years of service, being declared insolvent, the tram company closed down on December 15th, 1929.Prefect
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