Jenny's Side Party.
On arrival in Hong Kong Jenny's side party were permitted to attach themselves to HMS London. They came highly recommended by Belfast and a number of other ships in the Far Eastern Fleet. The girls were very popular and adept with a paint brush. Their pay consisted of spare food, bits of rope, tin, bottles, in fact anything that would usually have been jettisoned overboard.
With Mount Victoria in the
background Jenny's girls
supervise 'painting ship'.
When not armed with a paint brush the girls could be found at various points around the ship washing clothes, darning socks, stitches badges or ironing for one shipmate or other.
When it was finally time to go home the girls turned out in force in their sampan to wave the ships company goodbye.
