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Photograph 012815 Second World War, 1939-1945PHOTO SHOWS LUNCHEON AFTER LAUNCHING HMIS BENGAL . THE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED BY MRS CURTIN, WIFE OF THE PRIME MINISTER.

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Mrs Elsie Curtin, wife of the Australian prime mnister, speaking at a luncheon after she launched the Indian Navy corvette HMIS Bengal at the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company.
PHOTO SHOWS LUNCHEON AFTER LAUNCHING HMIS BENGAL . THE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED BY MRS CURTIN, WIFE OF THE PRIME MINISTER.

PHOTO SHOWS LUNCHING AFTER LAUNCHING HMIS BENGAL. THE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED BY MRS CURTIN, WIFE OF THE PRIME MINISTER.

SYDNEY, NSW. MRS R. G. MENZIES, WIFE OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND LAUNCHING LADY, SPEAKING, SIR GEORGE DAVIS KT, CHAIRMAN OF DIRECTORS, COCKATOO DOCK AND ENGINEERING COY PTY LTD AND THE PRIME MINISTER, M

COCKATOO ISLAND DOCKYARD, SYDNEY, NSW. 1940-02-10. THE PRIME MINISTER, MR R. G. MENZIES, SPEAKING AT THE LUNCHEON AFTER THE LAUNCHING OF THE SLOOP HMAS WARREGO (II). THOSE SEATED ARE: MRS R. G. MENZIE

LAUNCHING OF H.M.A.S. DELORAINE (CORVETTE) AT MORT'S DOCK. AT OFFICIAL LUNCHEON. COMMODORE MUIRHEAD GOULD, MR. T. SILK, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF MORT'S DOCK AND ENGINEERING CO. (SPEAKING) AND DAME MARY HU

HMAS "Cairns" alongside the dockyard wall of Royal Indian Dockland, Bombay. Secured to "Cairns" are HMS "Tulip" (English corvette) and HMIS "Madras" (Australian-built corvette of Indian Navy). Left fo
