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Shanghai Lil's bar and brothel, Kingston, Jamaica.
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A Tahitian welcome.
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The menu for the ship's first wartime Christmas, in Jamaica, 1939. The illustration is by Ray Parkin.

Perth
arrives in Sydney for the first time, March 1940.
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Perth
sails into Sydney Harbour.
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AIRFAX
10148550)

Perth
at anchor in Rose Bay, Sydney. The old flying-boat base can be seen in the background.

The 0.5-inch anti-aircraft guns on
Perth'
s stern.
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AIRFAX
10151684)

The 6-inch guns of A-and B-turrets on
Perth'
s foredeck.
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AWM
304903)

A Seagull (Walrus) aircraft being lowered onto a ship's catapult.
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AWM
044443)

In the air above an unidentified cruiser (possibly
Perth'
s sister ship
Sydney).
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AWM
P03245.002)

Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, twice Britain's Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean – the best British fighting admiral of the Second World War.
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AWM
P00433.001)

The destroyer leader HMAS
Stuart,
Hec Waller's ship in the Australian Scrap Iron Flotilla, which Waller commanded in the Mediterranean.
(
AWM
P00444.186)

Perth
sailors relaxing beneath the 6-inch guns of the ship's main armament, in harbour at Alexandria, Egypt, 1941.
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AWM
008868)