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Byford Magazine No.12
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Byford Magazine No.23, Group 7 store
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Byford Building 39, shell scraping room
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Byford Buildings 64-65, proof block and heat test room
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Byford Building 71, Mine test room
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Byford Main lab. and offices (on left)
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Byford Building 70 Mine assay mine & sinker storage bay
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Byford Building 5 Interior of typical 50' magazine
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Byford Building 12 Interior of typical 100' magazine construction
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Byford Buildings 59-60 Joiners shop (right) and gun wharf store (left)
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Byford Building 59 Interior of joiners shop
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Byford Building 70 Mine assay shop maintenance & repair work
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Byford Building 57 Interior of lab. articles in use store
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Byford Building 36 Interior of typical lab. room
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Byford Building 38 Warhead examination room
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Byford Building 71A Mine test room interior
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Preston Point index
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Preston Point mess room
Item Detail
Summary
During 1941-1942 a torpedo depot was constructed at Preston Point (near Fremantle) to provide torpedo maintenance facilities for allied submarines and gunnery training for the RAN. Later, the depot became HMAS Leeuwin, a junior recruit training school. In 1942-43 an armament depot was established at Byford that was subsequently expanded to cater for mines and gunnery equipment. The site was probably chosen because it was sufficiently far from the coast to be safe from seaborne attack, and because rail access was available.
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Title taken from album and notes. Digital copies only supplied, original photographs not held.
Subjects
- Navy-yards and naval stations -- Western Australia -- Byford -- Photographs.
- Navy-yards and naval stations -- Western Australia -- Preston Point -- Photographs.
- Military weapons -- Storage -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
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BA2495/1
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