Rear-Admiral David William Maurice Boyle, 9th Earl of Glasgow,, was a British nobleman and a Royal Navy officer. He was Chief of the Name and Arms of Boyle.
Boyle in 1941
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Malta Dockyard was an important naval base in the Grand Harbour in Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. The shipyard infrastructure is still in operation and is now operated by Palumbo Shipyards.
David Boyle, 9th Earl of Glasgow
…to captain in 1952, he became Captain of the Fleet, Home Fleet, in March 1957, Commodore, Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth, in September 1959 and Flag Officer, Malta, in July 1961. He retired in July 1963 as a rear admiral. In 1937 he married Dorothea Lyle (1914–2006), and had three children with her…
Valletta Harbour: Dockyard Creek (left) and French Creek (right) with the fortified city of Senglea between the two
A Maltese shipyard worker heads home on his bicycle after a day's work on USS La Salle in Cospicua.
HM Dockyard, Malta, 1865: new iron sheers in use
Docks No. 1 and 2 (Hamilton Dock) in Bormla.