Description: | This is a brown cloth covered album with a weak spine, binding broken and leaves brittle. The album contains 143 photographs glued to 40 leaves, most photographs are captioned. The album is decorated with daffodils.
The album includes the following vessels: HMS Arrogant (1896); HMS Exmouth (1901) groups etc on board; HMY Victoria & Albert (1899); French Du Chayla (1895); Spanish Princesa de Asturias (1896); SS Sardinia (1888) on fire and wrecked, Malta in November 1908.
Also included are the following locations: Forth, Oban, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Quebec, Malta.
The album includes the Messina earthquake in 1908, King Edward VII at Malta in March 1909, Coronation Review at Spithead in 1911, fire at J.S. White & Co. shipyard at East Cowes in April 1911, G. J. A. Miles as a Lieutenant.
See also ALB0860. |