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New photos of Freetown in WW2

I've found some new photos today on Wikicommons.

By Royal Navy official photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons 

French sailor carrying fresh pineapples 

on board the submarine depot ship HMS MERCATOR 

at Freetown, Sierra Leone, August 1943.

HMS MERCATOR was a three masted barquentine 
which had been commissioned by the Royal Navy 
as a floating rest home for submarine men 
when they returned to harbour after Atlantic patrol.

This is what my dad wrote in his diary:
"The oranges' season is now well in and the crop is excellent. 
Pineapples are also in and I had my first the other day. 
They are quite juicy but rather woody.
I think I prefer the tinned variety."
20th January 1944

By Royal Navy official photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

One of HMS MERCATOR'S signalman, 

from Sierra Leone, 

using semaphore to pass a message 

to a submarine preparing to come alongside.


By Intelligence, Freetown, Royal Navy official photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Unloading a cargo of timber from America 

at the West African port of Freetown. 

The timber was required for new docks and harbour works.


By Royal Navy official photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The Motor Minesweper J 821 moored in Freetown harbour.

By Royal Navy official photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Men of HMS WOLVERINE
do a "spot of dhobeying"naval slang for washing.
Washing clothes on the upper deck
during a spell in harbour at Freetown, Sierra Leone.

There isn't a great deal of information with the photos but they're an interesting collection.
I'll put the others in a separate post so the page won't take too long to load.