Aquitania

Aquitania is shown docked at Woolloomooloo in Sydney in December, 1945. The ship had just returned Australian troops to their homeland, and she will sail on the 10th of that month with a load of returning British troops as well as more than 1000 civilians who had been unable to leave Sydney following the outbreak of the War back in September, 1939. Although the ship’s armament had been removed by this time, she still hasn’t had the railing around her fantail replaced, and the large bundles of scramble netting still hang along her sides.