Description: | This is a black cloth covered album with a weak spine, containing 182 photographs glued to 30 leaves. Most of the photographs have been captioned.
The album was compiled by Lt. Commander A. Dixon RN, relating to the service of the Himalaya as an armed merchant cruiser 1914-7 and includes scenes on board, colaing, crew members etc.
The album also inlcudes the following locations: Maldives (Diego Garcia, Male), Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Suez (Sinai Peninsula, Tor, Jebel Tenka).
Also included in the album are the following vessels: French Desaix (1901), French Montialm (1900), HMS Ocean (1898), HMS Minerva (1895), HMS Chelmer (1904), Port Macquarie (1912), Wiegand (1902). |