The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
PORT PHILLIP BAY(?), VIC, C. 1910. FIRST-CLASS TORPEDO BOAT THE CHILDERS, BUILT 1883 IN LONDON, ACQUIRED 1884 BY THE STATE OF VICTORIA. SHE BECAME PART OF THE COMMONWEALTH NAVAL FORCES IN 1901, AFTER FEDERATION. (DONOR D. CAHILL)
JOHN ROCKEY (IN CENTRE OF PHOTOGRAPH WITH CAP AND BEARD), FATHER-IN-LAW OF DONOR, AMONGST FELLOW CREW MEMBERS OF THE CHILDERS, A FIRST-CLASS TORPEDO-BOAT BUILT IN 1883 BY THORNYCROFT OF CHISWICK, LOND
VICTORIA. STARBOARD SIDE VIEW OF THE TORPEDO BOAT HMVS CHILDERS EN ROUTE FROM WILLIAMSTOWN TO PORT PHILLIP BAY. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION).
WILLIAMSTOWN, VIC. PORT FORWARD QUARTER VIEWS OF THE VICTORIAN FIRST CLASS TORPEDO BOATS HMVS CHILDERS (FOREGROUND) AND COUNTESS OF HOPETOUN (RIGHT BACKGROUND). BOTH VESSELS WERE BUILT IN LONDON. CHIL
The first class torpedo boat HMAS Countess of Hopetoun of seventy five tons displacement which was launched in 1891 and formed part of the Commonwealth Naval Forces at the outbreak of the First World
1884. STARBOARD SIDE VIEW OF THE TORPEDO BOAT HMVS CHILDERS. SHE IS RIGGED WITH MASTS AND SAILS FOR THE DELIVERY VOYAGE FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM TO AUSTRALIA. THE THREE MASTS WERE LATER REMOVED AND REP
PORT MELBOURNE, VIC. 1912. PORT BOW QUARTER VIEW OF THE FIRST CLASS TORPEDO BOAT HMAS COUNTESS OF HOPETOUN. NOTE THE BOW TORPEDO TUBE. AFTER SERVING IN THE PORT PHILLIP BAY AREA DURING WORLD WAR 1 THE
