Volume 1: 'As fitted' photographs of the Hold and Platforms for HMS Vanguard (1944)

A half-leather post-bound album containing 70 prints, with captions, relating to HMS Vanguard (1944), as fitted in 1945-46. The prints cover the Hold, Platform and Upper Platform looking at the following main areas:

1) Machinery Rooms
2) 'Y' Turret Space, Magazine, Handling/Handing and Shell Room
3) H. P. Air compressor and 350 ton pump room
4) Transmitting Station
5) Forward Computer Room
6) Steering gear compartment

Note that Album ALB0046 has an index to the 412 photographs in the nine albums (ALB0039-ALB0046).

See NOTES Field for full list of the plates with descriptions relating to this album.

Object Details

ID: ALB0039
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1944-45; 1945-1946 1945-46
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 375 mm x 490 mm x 72 mm