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The development of the Queensland Navy and Naval Brigade forces lagged behind the Land Forces. The naval force was perhaps as important to public morale as it was to the enhanced capacity it provided for the colony's actual defence.
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Drill and torpedo work by the Queensland Marine Defence Force, 1899. Collection of images displaying drill and torpedo work by the Queensland Marine Defence Force. Naval exercises are being carried out on the torpedo boat 'Mosquito' and the 'Gayunda'. John Oxley Library image#186629
Group photograph of the Cairns Naval Brigade including some children in the front row, ca. 1890. Marine based section of the Queensland Defence Force, Cairns Naval Brigade. John Oxley Library image#70183
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Defending the Colony 
