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Description: | Collection of material consisting of one loose leaved album and 12 cardboard mounts containing images relating to the service of George Vernon Clarke in the Royal Navy during the Great War.
Album includes images of Marconi 1/4 kilowatt radio set; activities relating to the 1918 armistice taken at Newlyn motor launch base; activities at, and on vessles from, motor launch bases at Newlyn, Newquay, Penzance and Padstow; various Motor launches (ML 351, ML 321, ML 570, ML 363, ML 579, ML 334 ) including one unnumbered in dazzle paint; interior and exterior of a German U-Boat, U 101 including (engine room and torpedo room); portraits of Clarke's shipmates including Lt Kitson DSC, Lt Woodman, Lt Bluett, Lt Alfree, Lt Pritchard and Lt Massey; torpedo boat destroyer passing gates at Mounts Bay; interior and exterior of a French trawler; naval anti-submarine diving; panorama of Penzance and Newlyn; HMT JOHN KIDD; Trevose Lighthouse; torpedoed French steamer; TBD in St Ives Bay; ML 579 in dry dock; depth charge exploding; SS WAR GRANCE ashore at Newquay after being torpedoed; Brixam smacks at Paistow; Padstow aeroplane patrolling north Cornish coast; airship Z.49; crashed aircraft; FCT convoy; American submarine chasers at Newlyn; MLs experiencing heavy weather; various wrecked merchantmen; old Torpedo Boat 87 on patrol; HMS MONAS ISLE laying boom in Mounts Bay; cable ship HMS SQUIRREL; Submarine Chaser SC91; convoy in Mounts Bay.
American merchantman ashore at Penzance; recovering mines floating free after a mine carrier was torpedoed; various motor launches (ML 245, ML 352, ML 570); signalling lamp; semaphore; French merchantman; the sinking of British steamer AMAZON; depth charge attack off Lands End; convoys; remains of ML 247 on rocks; torpedoed vessel breaking up; view of Newlyn naval base from WT station; New Haven patrol 1917, including HMT MIKADO and HMT INCHGARTH; airship C23A; salvaging bombs after aircraft crash; aircraft ditching in sea and being rescued; Newlyn naval air station from the ground and from the air. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Navy 1914-1918 Royal Navy | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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