A very distant starboard bow view of the minelayer HMS Princess Irene (1914) at sea, following astern of the light cruiser HMS Aurora (1913). Princess Irene is being escorted by destroyers of the Harwich Force, which have false bow waves painted below the forecastle deck. She was painted black hull with white upper strake and superstructure. The photograph was taken from the stern of the Aurora looking over the Carley float lashed to the deck.

Aurora met up with Princess Irene and Princess Margaret at sea on 9 May while proceeding from Sheerness to Harwich [TNA, ADM 53/34495].

HMS Princess Irene was launched as a passenger liner for Canadian Pacific Railways but requisitioned by the Admiralty for use as a minelayer. She exploded and sank off Sheerness on 27 May 1915.