Description: | Album covering the service of Surg Lt Betram Pidcock in the Royal Navy during the Great War. Portraits of HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, HMS IRON DUKE, HMS LION, HMS NATAL, HMS ACTIVE, HMS SWIFT, HMS MOON, HMHS GARTH CASTLE, HMS HOPE, HMS HOPE HMS MANDATE, SS CAMPANIA, HMS SHELDRAKE, HMS MONS. HMS MOOR, HMS STAUNCH (midships deck view), HMS BROKE, HMS MICHAEL, HMS KEMPENFELT, HMS NEMESIS, HMS KING GEORGE V, HMS PRINCESS ROYAL, HMS INDEFATIGABLE, HMS OFFA, HMS DEFENDER, HMS BIRMINGHAM, HMS RUBY, HMS TIGER, HMAS SYDNEY, HMS SOUTHAMPTON, HMS DUBLIN, HMS CANADA, HMS INFLEXIBLE, HMS LORD RAGLAN, HMS WARSPITE, HMS BARHAM, HMS ARGUS, HMS REVENGE, HMS RAMILLES, HMS AGINCOURT, HMS BIRKENHEAD, HMS PARKER, HMS GLORIOUS, HMS FURIOUS, HMS COURAGEOUS, HMS VALIANT, HMS RENOWN, HMS RESOLUTION, HMS BELLEROPHON, HMS CALADON, HMS GALATEA, HMS CORLEW, HMS PHARTON, ML 63, HMS CERES, USS NEW YORK, HMS CARDIFF, HMSubmarine C22, HMS MINOTAUR, HMS ACHILLES, HMS SUPERB, HMS ORION, HMS GALLUP, KONIG ALBERT, BAYERN, GRESSEKORFURST, PRINTZRAGENT, LUITPOLO, FRANKFURT, BRUMMER, KRONPRINZ WILHELM, HINDENBURG, NURNBERG, MOLTKE, SEYDLITZ, KAISER, EMDEN and various unidentified British and German vessels.
Scenes include AUDACIOUS sinking after striking mine 1914, crew group portraits, Scapa Flow, recovering torpedo, torpedo firing at sea, ships in heavy seas, 4 inch gun drill, view of coast of Cromarty, scenes relating to HMS BIRMINGHAM such as at sea, battle practice, in Scapa Flow, gun director and rangefinder, release of paravanes, Christmas decoration, foc'sle, coaling ans midships from mast, dropping depth charges, at Firth of Forth, working party hoisting the anchor manually via the capstan. flag raising, unusual verticle image of BIRMINGHAM from a balloon showing her firing broadside, boat deck, quarterdeck, Admiral stewm pinnace coming alongside and being hoisted aboard, BIRMINGHAM at Jutland, in Rosyth, PZ convoy, 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron at sea, Grand Fleet at sea, HMS COURAGEOUS and 'K' class submarine alongside, HMS AUDACIOUS sinking, smoke shells bursting, Grand Fleet at Rosyth, battle cruisers in Forth of Firth, 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron at anchor, HMS OAK with HM Goerge V reviewing fleet July 1918, HMS ARGUS in Rosyth dockyard, cutter crew racing, shell damage to unidentified vessel, series of remarkable images of evacuation of a liner or troopship 18/4/1918, seaplane launch, observation balloon raised and crashing, naval airships |