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| MV Melbourne Star 1936 - 1943 |
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| Cape
Town Docks on 31 March 1941 notice the guns on the poop deck Photo taken by John Marsh author 'Skeleton Coast' |
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| Melbourne Star's bridge during Operation
Pedestal. Engine Telegraph set at 'Full Speed Ahead'. |
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| Mobile 'Bofors Gun' on the deck of
Melbourne Star during Operation Pedestal. |
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| Melbourne Star enters Malta's Grand Harbour | ||||||||||||
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| 'Melbourne Star heads for Grand Harbour's Dock No3' | ||||||||||||
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| 'Nearly there' | ||||||||||||
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| Melbourne Star safe after the hardest fought of all the Malta Convoys during World War II | ||||||||||||
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| Melbourne Star discharges her valuable cargo at the Grand Harbour's No 3 Dock |
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| Signed
by the crew of Melbourne Star many of whom were lost when she was sunk in the Atlantic April 2nd 1943 |
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