An air-raid on Manoel Island taken from the Governor’s Palace in Valletta. (Courtesy Imperial War Museum)
During World War Two the Lazzaretto at Manoel Island served as a base for the Royal Navy submarine flotilla making it a target for bombing. (Courtesy Imperial War Museum, London)
Fort Manoel photographed from Valletta in the late 1860s. (Courtesy of the Richard Ellis Collection)
In post-war years, the island served as a Royal Naval shore establishment named HMS Phoenicia. Here the ship’s company band pose outside the fort’s back entrance
One of the earliest photographs of Fort Manoel serving as an extension of the Lazzaretto. (Courtesy Heritage Malta)
One of the greatest losses at Fort Manoel was the almost complete destruction of the exquisite chapel of St Anthony of Padua, this has now undergone reconstruction. (Courtesy Midi plc)
