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Wartime

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...
Floating Dry Dock This craft is reported to have been towed from Pembroke Dock to Invergordon in 1938 to facilitate th...
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...
Saro Lerwick of 4 (C) OTU, Invergordon Saro Lerwicks failed to prove successful when operating out of RAF Oban. A number of these aircraft ...
Handley Page Harrow In September 1939, No. 8 Air Observers School was formed at Evanton and operated Harrows, Henleys, W...
Handley Page Harrow taxying at Evanton, with a mixture of other aircraft in the background The grass in the foreground is quite long, but the runways were mown short. At this time, aircraft w...

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