The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Two-line illustrations of routine activities to be observed on any Australian corvette or destroyer. Both drawn on HMAS "Cairns" the top drawing "In the galley" depicts a messman receiving the dinner for the mess from one of the cooks. The bottom drawing "Dhobying" shows crew laundering clothes. "Dhoby" is a Naval slang meaning to wash clothes.
Depicts an unidentified cook preparing Christmas dinner of roast pork and apple sauce, potatoes and cabbage, and plum pudding in the galley of the HMAS "Cairns". Frank Norton had joined HMAS Cairns o
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
Official war artist Frank Norton had arrived at HMAS Commonwealth Naval Base Kure, Japan, late on the 26th June 1952 just in time to sail with HMAS Warramunga (I) on the second half of her final Korea
