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Description: | 6 albums covering the career of Commander J C Maclean with nearly complete captions. All albums contain large numbers of "tourist" snapshots.
Album 1: Cadet course at Osborne including shots of demonstrations of athletics. Early service at sea including convoy to Scandinavia and with P45.
Album 2: Early service at sea including First World War coaling ship at Newfoundland, a navigation class, HMS VANGUARD, HMS LORD CLIVE heeling trials, Belgian coast patrol and embarking RFA Battery at Dunkirk.
Album 3: Interwar: postcards of German fleet sinking at Scapa, HMS VERNON's landing party guarding freighter during coal strike, anti-gas course, various ships including HMS REVENGE, VANGUARD, VIKING, BASILISK etc.
Album 4: 1920s: HMS DEFIANCE in original site at Portsmouth, aerial views of Gibraltar, views from train on the way to Portsmouth, coaling ship in Denmark
Album 5: HMS EFFINGHAM Round the World Cruise 1926-1928: shots of ship and tourist snaps of ports of call in Ceylon, Burma, India and Aden. Also visit of TRH Duke and Duchess of York to Mauritius 1927, Proclamation Day Parade, Calcutta 1928, Staff College Quetta, Anglo-Persian Oil Company Plant in Persia, Iraq archaelogical sites, aerial shots, Persian Gulf visits of Arab sheiks to the ship.
Album 6: Command of HMS ALBANY, first minesweeping flotilla 1930s, views of flotilla and visit to Norway and passage through Kiel Canal. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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