Vice-Admiral G. F. B. Edward-Collins

Portrait.

A charcoal sketch of a man leaning back in an armchair. He wears a uniform and holds papers in his right hand. Vice Admiral G. F. B. Edward-Collins (1883-1958) was the Vice-Admiral commanding the 18th Cruiser Squadron, and second -in-Command Home Fleet HMS Birmingham from HMS Edinburgh in 1940. Signed by artist and dated.

Object Details

ID: PAF3625
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Bone, Muirhead
Date made: 1940
People: Edward-Collins, George Frederick Basset
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1947
Measurements: Mount: 332 mm x 424 mm