The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Newspaper supplement featuring the Alfred Graving Dock. This print was published in the Australasian Sketcher, Melbourne, 21 March 1874.
The gun-boat "Victoria" in the Government graving dock at Williamstown being worked on. This image was published in The Australasian Sketcher, 25 August 1884, page 132
WILLIAMSTOWN, VIC. 1874-03. STERN VIEW OF THE TRAINING BATTLESHIP HMVS NELSON IN THE ALFRED GRAVING DOCK. HMVS NELSON WAS THE FIRST VESSEL TO ENTER THE ALFRED GRAVING DOCK. (P0444/214/142 SAME IMAGE)
This colonial wood engraving published in the Australasian Sketcher, 27 March 1880 shows a small dinghy being rowed out to construction works of a fort in the middle of the channel.Other sailing vesse
WILLIAMSTOWN, VIC. 1874. HMVS NELSON, A WOODEN AUXILARY STEAM TRAINING SHIP, IN THE ALFRED GRAVING DOCK. A FORMER BRITISH LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIP SHE WAS THE LAST AND THE LARGEST WOODEN WAR SHIP BUILT IN
This print was published in the Melbourne based, Australasian Sketcher, on 22 April 1882. There are five images compiled into this print. The top left image is captioned 'Queenscliff Night Visions'
Looking down on of the stairways into the Graving Dock at Colombo. Local workmen painting the bottom of HMAS "Cairns". A Ceylonese policeman stands guard at the gangway, Colombo, Ceylon. This is one