Mediterranean, 1899-1902, mainly relating to HMS 'Theseus' (1892)

Contents (plate number):

1. HMS Theseus (1892) [port near beam view, at anchor]
2. 'Vue Generale de l' Acropole et Temple de Thessee' [View of the Acropolis and Temple of Theseus]
3. 'Parthenon (Nord-Oeuest) [View of the Parthenon from the north west]
4. No caption [View of the Temple of Theseus]
5. No caption [View of the Temple of Zeus, with Acropolis in the background]
6. No caption [Theatre of Dionysos taken from top of the slope]
7. No caption [view across Athens towards Lykavitos Hill]
8. No caption [view of Hadrian's Arch, with Temple of Zeus in the background]
9. No caption [view of the Parliament Building]
10. Valetta, Grand Harbour side
11. Entrance to Grand Harbour [taken from terrace on Valetta]
12. Grand Harbour from Lower Barracca [Red Cross steamer Berger Wilhelm moored by the stern in foreground, and Hibernia (1804), flagship to Malta in background]
13. Grand Harbour from Upper Barracca
14. Corfu [view of the fort with warships]
15. Corfu [view of the fort]
16. Smyrna [camel train along street]
17. Alexandretta [camel being fed outside town]
18. Alexandretta [Camel train outside town]
19. Alexandretta [Camel train]
20. Alexandretta [Shepherd with sheep]
21. Alexandretta [two horsemen in an irrigation canal, with two men standing in foreground]
22. Alexandretta [group of camels with packs and saddles on their backs]
23. Alexandretta [group of camels with packs and saddles on their backs, outside town]
24. Duethero Cove. Port Booms [view from port side out over the cove, with snow covering the deck]
25. Deuthero Cove. Starboard Booms [view from starboard side over the cove, with snow covering the deck]
26. Deuthero Cove. [Officers making a snowman onboard]
27. Duethero cove. Com. Boyle. [Com. Boyle standing by completed snowman onboard]
28. No caption [Destroyer flotilla with cruisers in the background, underway off Malta]
29. HMS Hibernia (1804) [Port broadside view of her as flagship, sold October 1902].
30. Trieste [view of the harbour]
31. Platea [view of a hut on flat ground. Location unknown]
32. Salonika [view of the harbour with a bow view of a Royal Sovereign class battleships at anchor]
33. Dockyard Creek, Malta [view from the Upper Barraca Gardens at Valletta across to Fort St Angelo and Dockyard Creek]
34. Malta [view from Kalkara Creek towards Valletta]
35. Malta [view from Valletta towards (I-r) Kalkara Creek with Bighi Hospital, and Dockyard Creek with Fort St Angelo]
36. Malta [View of Valletta from Grand Harbour, with warships at anchor]
37. Hospital, Malta [Bighi Hospital taken from aboard unknown warship (poss Theseus) in Grand Harbour].
38. Malta [unknown buildings]
39. Malta [View from Valletta towards Dockyard Creek with Fort St Angelo on the left and Senglea on the right. Warships anchored in dockyard Creek]
40. Sleima (sic), Malta [view of Sliema, with Fort Manoel on left in the foreground].
41. Malta [view of Valletta from the harbour looking at Fort St Elmo]
42. Queen's Square, Malta [view of the statue of Queen Victoria surrounded by wreaths, with marines leaning on reversed (Schneider-Enfield) rifles, and crowds watching, 1901]
43. Entrance, Grand Harbour, Malta [taken from escarpment close to Victoria Gate]
44. Unreadable caption. [view on the Quarterdeck of Theseus]
45. Sounding [view of the equipment for taking soundings onboard Theseus]
46. Gat Reale [The Old entrance into Valletta, since destroyed]
47. Cups won by Theseus, 1900-1901
48. HMS Canopus (1897) [starboard broadside view, bow out of image]
49. No caption [view down broadside looking at ships boats attached to the boom, Canopus? in the background]
50. HMS Canopus (1897) [starboard broadside view, bow missing; cutter in middle distance]
51. Q. D. [view of the Quarterdeck]
52. Malta [view of Theseus?]
53. Hoisting out 'Picket boat'
54. Picket boat [on davits, view of bottom]
55. Picket Boat [as above]
56. Landing parties returning, Malta [picket boat towing two ships cutters].
57. Corfu [starboard broadside view of local sailing vessel]
58. Picnic, Corfu [group photograph]
59. Syra [view of a nun? (woman in black with wimple) on the steps to a house]
60. Opera House Malta
61. Malta [group of Maltese]
62. No caption [Fleet underway]
63. Lagos [local craft onshore by rocks]
64. Lagos [Oxen and cart]
65. Malta [view of part of Valletta from the harbour].
66. Syra [Island of Syra, part of the Cyclades, view of the old town]
67. Malta
68. Pumping Water, Lagos
69. HMS Illustrious [Port near beam view, underway]
70. Combined Fleet, Lagos [fleet anchored in rows]
71. Combined Fleet, Lagos [as above]
72. Review, Malta [military review on parade ground]
73. Lagos [boy in rowing boat, with Combined Fleet in distant background]
74. Lagos [similar to Plate 68 -pumping water]
75. Gunroom [officers reading papers]
76. Lemnos [view of fleet at anchor]
77. Piraeus [view of harbour and some of the town]
78. Rapallo [Liguria, Italy. View of the harbour and part of the town from the heights]
79. Gib [view of Gibraltar from the land]
80. Bridge Taranta [unknown location]
81. Genoa [view of the Piazza Corevetto looking towards the equestrian statue of Victor Emmanuel II]
82. Thaso [Greece]
83. 'Beyrouth vu du collage americain' [view of Beirut and coastline from the American school]
84. 'Beyrouth, la ville et la port, vus de St. Dimitri' [view of town and port of Beirut].
85. 'Quuis de Smyrna' [Quay at Smyrna with ships moored stem-to]
86. 'Port d':Alexandretta' [view of the port at Alexandretta]
87. 'Syra/Grece' [view of Syra, from the quayside opposite the town]
88. No caption [Malta, Grand Harbour with warships and yachts at anchor]
89. Fo'c'sle, At sea
90. Prize firing, Aft 9.2 inch [onboard Theseus]
91. Port After 6 inch [onboard Theseus]
92. Conning Tower (Newman, P.O. I") [view of the inside]
93. Malta
94. After shelter deck [focusing on the maxim gun]
95. Picnic, Suda Bay [group with donkeys]
96. Lagos [groups of locals with two pack donkeys]
97. Gun Room [officers reading/sleeping]
98. Gun Room [as above]
99. Port after torpedo tube [tube mechanism and torpedo in view]
100. T. B.'s at Malta [4, including numbers 11 and 22]
101. Sailing Pinnace [view down into the pinnace showing sailor standing on the boom/gaff]
102. Football, Malta
103. Whaler, Patras [ships whaler under both lug sails]
104. Torpedo leaving tube
105. Port side upper deck.
106. Coaling ship [view of crew members with coal sack on a trolley]
107. Field Guns
108. Coaling ship [view of coal sack being lifted aboard]
109. After bridge [bending flags to the halyards]
110. Field Guns
111. Hospital [Bighi hospital, Malta]
112. After bridge [note the flag lockers]
113. No caption [fleet at sea, including Royal Sovereign class battleships]
114. No caption [fleet at sea]
115. No caption [fleet at sea]
116. No caption [Cutter racing]
117. No caption [fleet at sea]
118. No caption [location unknown, cruisers at anchor]
119. No caption [location unknown]
120. No caption [location unknown]
121. No caption [location unknown]

Object Details

ID: ALB0150
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Date made: After 1902
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 270 mm x 385 mm x 26 mm