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A view of the exterior of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in George, Western Cape, South Africa. Completed in about 1843, it is the oldest Catholic church in South Africa. A manuscript annotation reads '‘The oldest Church in use in South Africa’.

An image of SS 'Stratheden', a British ocean liner, docked at the Port of Cape Town, South Africa.

An image of the 'Dominion Monarch' passenger ship docked at the Port of Cape Town in South Africa.

An image of children probably from a parish school or orphanage in Cape Province, South Africa.

An image of the ‘Irish Larch’, an Irish Shipping Limited merchant vessel, leaving the Port of Cape Town in South Africa.

An image taken from on board the 'Dominion Monarch' docked in the Port of Cape Town, South Africa. The ship in the distance is either the RMMV 'Stirling Castle' or her identical sister ship the RMMV 'Athlone Castle', British passenger liners built by Harland & Wolff (Belfast) for the Union-Castle Line's mail service from Southampton to Cape Town.

A religious pageant for children, probably at a parish school in Cape Province, South Africa.

An image of HMS 'Vanguard', a British Navy battleship at Cape Town Harbour in South Africa. The ship was used as a royal yacht to transport King George VI and his family to South Africa, the first visit to the country by a reigning British monarch. HMS 'Vanguard' arrived in Cape Town on 17 February, escorted by the South African frigates 'Good Hope', 'Transvaal' and 'Natal' on the last leg of her voyage. The warship departed Cape Town on 22 April 1947.

A view of the exterior of Athlone Catholic Hall in Cape Town, South Africa.

A group of Irish Capuchin friars at St. Mary of the Angels Church, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa. Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. is the present in the photograph (seated, first on the right).