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The Sea

The Floating Dock Submerged This fascinating picture has been copied from the excellent book by Marinell Ash - 'This Noble Harbo...
USS San Francisco USS San Francisco, flagship of Mine Squadron One. She can be seen in the smaller of the floating doc...
HMS Malaya in the Floating Dock This picture of HMS Malaya just in the Floating Dock, I believe, follows on from picture #1360 and i...
Floating Dry Dock at Invergordon Another view of the empty floating dock. This could be the first in the series leading up to the arr...
HMS King George V at Invergordon The caption says: HMS "King George V" in the Floating dock at Invergordon Dec 1919.
Ditching in the Cromarty Firth This photo shows a De Havilland DH9A ditching next to HMS Coventry in the Cromarty Firth. Date would...
A Fairey 3F landing on HMS Furious As an aircraft carrier left Invergordon, the aircraft, which had disembarked to Novar, would fly ba...
Retrieving a Saro Lerwick from the Firth at Invergordon Saro Lerwick L7257 of 4 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit, 4(C)OTU, sank at it's moorings at Inver...
Removal of Saro Lerwick Saro Lerwick L7257 being moved on a 'Queen Mary' of 56 MU. The aircraft was taken to Greenock, avoid...
Transport of a damaged Supermarine Stranraer A Supermarine Stranraer, seen at RAF Longman, Inverness, on a 56 MU Queen Mary after recovery from t...
Recovery of a Consolidated PBY Catalina Flying Boat Catalina AH531 0f 4(C)OTU being readied for loading on to a recovery vehicle. This aircraft sank dur...
Short Sunderland N9046 Sunderland N9046 earned the Sunderland the nickname 'Flying Porcupine' on a sortie from Invergordon,...

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