The Malta Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Birgu, Malta. It is housed in the former Royal Naval Bakery, which was built in the 1840s as the main bakery for the Mediterranean Fleet. The museum h
The Malta Maritime Museum as viewed from the Birgu waterfront
The Malta Maritime Museum as seen from Senglea
Model of a ship of the line of the navy of the Order of Saint John
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.
Malta Maritime Museum
…inspired by Windsor Castle. The bakery took over the role of the Order's bakery in Valletta. The bakery formed part of the Victualling Yard of the Malta Dockyard, which supplied naval personnel of the Mediterranean Fleet with food and drink. At its peak, the bakery produced 30,000 pounds (14,000 kg) of bread and…
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.