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Union Castle. The Big Ship Way to Africa (Poster)
To South Africa, to East Africa or round Africa. Happy Ships. Union Castle (Poster)
See America this year! Cunard White Star (Poster)
P&O Branch Service to Australia via Malta, Suez & Colombo (Poster)
Recruitment sign (Notice)
Come with us to South Africa and escape the winter! Union-Castle Line (Poster)
Trafalgar (Poster)
British Empire Exhibition, 1924. April - October. Scenes of Empire, Series No. P32 (Poster)
The Pirates of Penzance (Poster)
Fishing with birds, Hankow, 1927 (Postcard)
Goat mascot probably belonging to HMS Veteran (1919) (Postcard)
Hulk guarded by HMS Veteran, March 1927 (Postcard)
View of Hong Kong Harbour (Postcard)
The Cenotaph, Hankow, 1927 (Postcard)
Chinese pirates captured at Bias Bay and taken to Hong Kong by HMS Vindictive (1918) (Postcard)
HMS Veteran (1919) between B and S hulk and SS Nangkin, Hankow, 1927 (Postcard)
L.71 (1919) (Postcard)
A torpedo leaving its tube, exercises off Skiathos, HMS Veteran (1919), 27 August 1926 (Postcard)
HMS Bee (1915), Yangtse River showing HMS Scarab (1915), HMS Seraph (1918) and HMS Wishart (1919), April 1927 (Postcard)
3rd Flotilla abreast of Skiathos, August 27 1926 (Postcard)
A torpedo a moment after it had been fired. HMS Veteran (1919), 3rd Flotilla, July 1926 (Postcard)
HMS Veteran (1919) and HMS Wivern (1919) (Postcard)
Chinese river junks at Hankow, March 1927 (Postcard)
Xmas Star (Print)
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