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Bellevue Park, Yarmouth Road, Lowstoft, Suffolk

nobody@ipernity.com (A Buildings Fan) — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:59:54 +0000

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Saint Peter's Church, Leeds, West Yorkshire

nobody@ipernity.com (A Buildings Fan) — Sun, 24 May 2015 14:03:37 +0000

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Saint Peter's Church, Leeds, West Yorkshire

nobody@ipernity.com (A Buildings Fan) — Sun, 24 May 2015 14:03:19 +0000

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RMAS Pioneer, Stokers c1915

nobody@ipernity.com (A Buildings Fan) — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 18:11:06 +0000

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The Pioneer was a cruiser transferred to the austrailan government before WWI

HMS Ganges, Shotley, Suffolk, Athletics Display c1920

nobody@ipernity.com (A Buildings Fan) — Sat, 07 May 2016 14:13:44 +0000

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Naval Cadets, HMS Ganges, Shotley Barracks, Suffolk

nobody@ipernity.com (A Buildings Fan) — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 15:58:36 +0000

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Naval Cadets, HMS Ganges, Shotley Barracks, Suffolk

nobody@ipernity.com (A Buildings Fan) — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 15:57:59 +0000

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RP HMS Powerful 1910 Quarantine Station Polo Team With Mumps Manly Aus Postcard

nobody@ipernity.com (A Buildings Fan) — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:41:50 +0000

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HMS Powerful was renamed Impregnable in 1919 and scrapped in 1929.

Boxing Match aboard the USS Canopus c1940

nobody@ipernity.com (A Buildings Fan) — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 12:07:45 +0000

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Extract from the Wikipedia entry for the ill-fated USS Canopus

Canopus was launched in 1919 as the passenger liner SS Santa Leonora for W. R. Grace and Company, but taken over by the Navy upon completion in July 1919 and placed in commission at that time as USS Santa Leonora. She was briefly employed as a trans-Atlantic troop transport before being decommissioned and transferred to the U.S. Army in September 1919.The ship was reacquired by the Navy in 1921 and converted to a submarine tender.

On 7 December 1941, Canopus, aging but able, lay at Cavite Navy Yard, as tender to Submarine Squadron 20. In the days that followed, her men worked day and night to repair ships damaged in the daily air raids as well as to keep her brood of submarines at sea. With the Army falling back on Manila, Canopus sailed to Mariveles Bay at the tip of Bataan on Christmas Day. On 29 December 1941 she received her first direct bomb hit. A 500-pound armor-piercing bomb penetrated all decks and exploded on the propeller shaft housing. Six sailors were killed mostly from scalding and fires started in the engine rooms and magazines. The six men were buried at sea at 1735 hours in Mariveles Bay at the tip of Bataan. On 1 January 1942 she received a second direct bomb hit. This time a fragmentation bomb which exploded near the top of the towering smokestack resulting in substantial damage to the ship and injuries to 16 men of the gun crews.
Disguised as a bombed out, listing, abandoned hulk, smoke pots were placed around the ship and giving the appearance of an abandoned hulk by day, while the ship hummed with activity by night. Her crew worked at a fevered pace repairing the smaller ships also left behind and keeping the submarines in action.
Just before the New Year, the last of the submarines left Canopus, but she never quit as she cared for small craft and equipment of the Army and Navy, sent her men into battle in the improvised naval battalion which fought on Bataan, and converted her own launches into miniature gunboats dubbed Mickey Mouse Battleships which attacked the Japanese moving south near the shore. But the overwhelming Japanese strength could not be held off forever, and upon the surrender of Bataan on the night of 8–9 April 1942, Canopus was ordered scuttled in Mariveles Bay, Bataan, to deny her use to the enemy. On 9 April, she was backed off into deep water under her own power and the veteran whom the Japanese could not sink ended a lifetime of service to the Navy when she was laid to rest by her own men.
221 of her crewmen were evacuated to Corregidor on 28 February 1942 and served with the Marines 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions on beach defenses. The final 327 crewmen were also evacuated to Corregidor and served in the 4th Marine Regiment's 4th Battalion Reserves (Provisional) which fought gallantly during the final battle for the island fortress. Nearly all Canopus crewmen were captured at the fall of Corregidor and spent the rest of the war in Japanese POW Camps in the Philippines and the Asian mainland.
212 were killed/missing in Action.