HMS Lancaster - Mediterranean Photographic Albums - Diary of events and important places visited during the commission of 1910-1912

Album compiled by Yeoman of Signals J P Wareham RN, commissioned at Chatham 31 May 1910 and paid off 4 November 1912

Good condition cloth bound gold embossed album (HP1981/81) containing 194 captioned photographs of which 192 are in window mounts and 2 glued in.

Numerous locations depicted - See listing below (none copied)
Gibraltar, Falmouth, Oban, Torquay, Port Mahon (Spain) Cagliari (Sardinia) Palermo (Italy) Malta, Platea (Greece) Corfu, Vigo (Spain) Algiers (Arab & French areas) Alexandria (Egypt) Jaffa, Jerusalem, Palestine, Limasol (Cyprus), Athens and Acropolis, Suda Bay, Canea (Crete), Port Said, Cairo (Sphinx and Pyramids), Turkey, Montecarlo, Nice, Cannes (France), Carnival day at Malta and Sheerness.

Good photograph (page 1) of HMS Lancaster (1902) with dedication and HMS Lancaster in dry dock at Malta (Pic No. 184). Photograph of officers of HMS Swiftsure, Suffolk, Lancaster (Picket boat) Medina at Malta with King Edward VII on board, Coronation Day in Alexandria, 1910 annual manouveres, target practice with towed target at sea. Field gun competition at Corradino, May 27 1911 (Pic No. 83)

Various life on board scenes, as follows, officers and staff on watch, Sunday afternoon on board, play, sick bay, dinners, grog, ships barbers, ships tailors, theatrical party, coal ship day, Regatta Day, Admiral's Cup winning crew 1910 plus photograph of Admiral's Cup won by HMS Lancaster (1910)

Object Details

ID: ALB0188
Type: Photograph Album
Display location: Not on display
Creator: RN, J P Wareham
Date made: 1912
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 390mm x 290mm x 50mm