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At the dockside, HMCS Niobe, Halifax
At the dockside, HMCS Niobe, Halifax

The logistics of keeping a large ship like HMCS Niobe provisioned with supplies, fuelled with coal, and adequately maintained required sophisticated dockyards and port facilities.

The largest storehouses in the Halifax naval dockyard were located at Wharf Number 3, seen here. This photograph shows an ant-like group of crew members carrying supplies past large pieces of equipment. The naval, government, and commercial dockyards clustered on Halifax's waterfront combined to make the city a hive of activity throughout much of the twentieth century.

George Metcalf Archival Collection
CWM 20030174-020



Boys' Mess, HMCS Niobe
Sailors Sewing Flags, HMCS Niobe
Playing Chess Below Decks, HMCS Niobe
HMCS Niobe's Goat
HMCS Niobe Gun Crew and Gunnery Target
Cecil George Corke, Boy Sailor, HMCS Niobe
Dominion Day, Niobe Boys
At the dockside, HMCS Niobe, Halifax
"Stokers Band," HMCS Niobe
Ceremony on the Quarterdeck, HMCS Niobe
HMCS Rainbow Arriving at Esquimalt, British Columbia, 1910
HMCS Rainbow's Officers Greeting Dignitaries
HMS Shearwater and HMCS Rainbow at Esquimalt, 7 November 1910
Gun Practice aboard HMCS Rainbow
Mess Deck, HMCS Rainbow, around 1910
Walter Hose, Commander of HMCS Rainbow
HMCS Rainbow Sailors and Capstan
HMCS Rainbow "Cleared for Action"
HMCS Rainbow in Drydock, Esquimalt
Commander Walter Hose, HMCS Rainbow
Sailor Standing by HMCS Rainbow's Wheel
Sailor with Sennet Hat and Camera, HMCS Rainbow
HMS Algerine in Esquimalt, 1914
Canadian Submarine at Esquimalt