Louis Keppel Hamilton
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Admiral Sir Louis Henry Keppel Hamilton, was a Royal Navy admiral. He was Flag Officer in Malta and later served as First Naval Member and Chief of Naval Staff of the Royal Australian Navy.
Rear Admiral Keppel Hamilton, second from left, meets King George VI aboard HMS Duke of York at Scapa Flow, August 1943
Malta Dockyard
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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.
Louis Keppel Hamilton
…Tuscaloosa, and four destroyers. In that role, he was one of the senior officers of the disastrous Convoy PQ 17. Between 1943 and 1945, Hamilton was Flag Officer, Malta, and while there was knighted by being appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. After the war, he served as First Naval Member of the…
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.