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An inspection of the Australian National Maritime Museum was made by Lord Bailey and myself.
The anchors holding the building in place. From the Vernon.
The museum ships awaiting our later review.
HMAS Vampire
HMB Endeavour
Barque James Craig and CLS 4 Carpentaria.
HMAS Onslow
Message on a BOTTLE.
HMAS Advance, Krait, and Tu Doc.
The temporary South Magnetic Pole exhibition.
Australia loves the American Navy more than it loves itself.
From the Darwin Beer Can Regatta.
With the launch of our expedition close at hand, we carefully plotted our course and conferred with local experts to verify our route.
Upon his arrival in Sydney Harbour, Lord Bailey proceeded to make a review of Her Majesty’s colony.
The Harbour Bridge was shrouded in fog and mist as is often the case on late winter mornings.
Lord Bailey toured the fortifications on the southern approach to the bridge.
He stopped in at the Sydney Observatory to reset his chronometer.
A review of the outside of the opera house was made.
Lord Bailey’s chronometer.
The device used to synchronize chronometers across Sydney with Greenwich Mean Time.
By the conclusion of Lord Bailey’s inspection of Sydney, the fog had cleared and the Australian flags were flying high above the harbour.
