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Description: | Bound album containing 45 fixed prints and 1 loose print. The album details the service life of a crew member (probably Lieutenant) of the Acorn class destroyer HMS HOPE during the First World War. Images include family portraits, images of Rathmullen Farm, Newport Suspension Bridge. Various naval subjects include: HMS HOPE in heavy seas; 18 inch torpedo firing; crew members of HOPE A.B. Pryce and W.R Servant; 'round The Lizard 1916 at 22 knots; view of upper deck of HMS HOPE; HMS HOPE's mascot dogs; from HMS HOPE en route to Sevastapol, the sailing ship 'Northern Atlantic'; HMS LIZARD off the Dardanelles, 1917; HOPE's football team which took on a team of Italian naval students, armed naval guard of honour, HMS HOPE in dry dock at Leghorn after collission off the Dardanelles; HM Submarine E2 off Kusa bay in 'dazzle' paint; wreck of HMS RAGLAN (mostly below the water line) in Kusa Bay. HMS HOPE's 'clowns Christmas 1918 at Malta. A loose print (completely unassociated from the rest of the album, depicting a Royal Navy stretcher case being unloaed from an RAF Whestland Whilrwind HAR.2 helicopter. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | HOPE (HMS) Royal Navy | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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