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The two main purposes the ships were intended for were minesweeping and anti-submarine escort. However, the corvettes found themselves performing a wide range of duties, including troop and supply transport, bombardment, assault landings support, survey and hydrography mapping, and providing aid to disabled ships.Dennis et al, The Oxford Companion to Australian military history, p. 78 The Bathursts were seen as 'maids of all work' by the RAN, even though the design was inappropriate for some roles; being too small, too slow, or inadequately armed or equipped.
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Her first books, in the later 1840s, were collections of crochet patterns for clothing and decorative items for the home. She created over 50 illustrated fancy needlework designs for the short-lived Drawing-room Magazine, with associated lessons offered in a London showroom, and contributed patterns to Family Friend.Kathryn Ledbetter The Drawing-room Magazine, which she probably edited herself, contained fiction, poetry and informative articles, as did her later magazine Timethrift, which survived for just six issues. Books like Cookery for Maids of All Work and Comfort for Small Incomes offered advice on the management of modest middle- class homes.
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There were two classes of membership: the working-class girls, known as members, and the ladies, called associates. As it mimicked the founders’ own relationships with their servants, so it naturally attracted the huge domestic servant class, girls who often led a tough and lonely existence as maids-of-all-work in households with only one or two staff. It was less popular with shopgirls, who saw themselves as a cut above, and Northern millgirls, who were, according to a GFS report, "undisciplined, impatient of reproof and entirely wanting in self-control". Both members and associates paid annual subscription fees tailored for their class, half of which went to the local group and half to the central office.
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