Magic lantern slide
Acc.no: PEZPH : 2009.387
Identification
Item: 1904 fleet visit to Mounts Bay
Description: The picture shows the pre dreadnought battleship HMS Royal Oak of the Home Fleet's 2nd in command in Mounts Bay in August 1904. She has a hoist of flag signals on her main mast. This is not the HMS Royal Oak which was torpedoed at Scapa Flow in 1939; this one was scrapped in 1914. During the 1904 visit, HMS Barfleur and Canopy collided. A stoker aboard HMS Drake died of TB and during boat drill the carpenter from HMS Swiftsure was lost overboard.
Description
Height: 73 mm
Width: 76 mm
Material: Glass plate
Production
Method: Printed
Person: Unknown
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