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RAN Armament Depot Sydney Annual Report 1935
In 1935, the Depot comprised the following storage areas:
Spectacle Island:
- Guns (17 different natures)
- Machine guns
- Rifles
- Pistols
- Accoutrements
- Anti-gas apparatus
- Side arms
- Ordnance tools
- Miscellaneous ordnance stores
- BL cartridges
- Cordite in bulk
- QF cartridges (w/o igniters)
- Fuzes
- Tubes
- Pyrotechnic stores
- Practice shot and projectiles
- Detonators
- Small arm ammunition
- Miscellaneous magazine stores
- Dockyard stores
- Packages
Newington:
- Fixed QF ammunition
- QF cartridges (w/igniters)
- Filled shell
- Torpedo warheads
- Bombs
- Wet and dry guncotton
- Gunpowder in bulk
- Cartridges impulse torpedo
- Primers and exploders
- Incendiary ammunition
- Chemical ammunition
- Packages
Georges Head Battery:
- QF cartridges (w/igniters)
Chowder Bay:
- Smoke floats
There were a total of 91 staff, made up of:
Administrative:
- Armament Supply Officer - 1
- Assistant Armament Supply Officer - 1
Clerical:
- Senior clerk - 1
- Clerks - 4
- Temporary clerk - 1
- Typist - 1
- Temporary female assistant - 1
Store Duties:
- Foreman of stores grade A - 1
- Foreman of stores grade C - 1
- Storehousemen - 7
- Junior storehousemen - 6
- Assistants (Armament) - 26
- Juvenile assistants - 3
Laboratory Duties:
- Foreman of laboratory grade B
- Laboratorymen - 3
- Assistants (Armament) - 15
- Juvenile assistants - 2
Workshops:
- Armament artificers - 3
- Joiner - 1
- Plumber - 1
- Assistants (Armament) - 6
Depot Craft:
- Motor boat drivers - 5
In addition, there was a police force of 10 men comprising 3 sergeants and 3 constables at Spectacle Island, and 1 sergeant and 3 constables at Newington.
Read the report for 1928/29.
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