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Diver John Childs on a lugger with the tools of the trade: lifeline,
diving boots, shell bag and helmet. (Copyright Dick Sonners.)
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Redbill crew with Dick Sonners in diving dress, tiny parrot on
his shoulder. (Copyright Dick Sonners.)
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Hilton `Curly' Bell preparing to dive; from his air of exhaustion
he has probably been down several times already that day. (Copyright
Dick Sonners.)
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Dick Sonners applying red lead during the rebuild of Redbill
in early 1954. (Copyright Dick Sonners.)
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Stepping the masts at Doctors Gully in 1954. (Copyright National Archives
of Australia, A1200, L17918.)
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Redbill laden with bags of pearlshell, photographed from
Editha. (Copyright Dick Sonners.)
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Redbill's new Japanese crewmen with Dick Sonners,
1955. (Copyright Dick Sonners.)
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The outstation at Sudest, Louisiade Archipelago, Papua, late
1950s. (Copyright Dick Sonners.)
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Papuan crew and pearlshell on Redbill's deck. (Copyright Dick
Sonners.)
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Darwin Harbour, 1967: Pam, Roslynne and White
Star, ex Bintang Puteh. (Copyright Steve Lorman Collection,
Northern Territory Library.)
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