Career of Captain Gerald H. Warner, RN, DSC

A brown cloth and card album containing 71 b/w captioned photographic prints relating to the early career of Captain G. H. Warner, RN when a Lieutentant on the light cruiser HMS Coventry (1917) in the North Sea and Mediterranean. The album covers the following themes:

Ships: HMS Canada (1913), HMS Argus (1917) [camoflage paint], HMS Revenge (1915), and HMS Coventry (1917), and Derflinger, Moltke and TBD's interred at Scapa Flow in 1918.

Topographical locations: Ferrol, Rotterdam, Ymuiden, Amsterdam, Gibraltar, Majorca, Ville France, Monte Carlo

Activities: Interred German fleet at Scapa Flow, salvaging aeroplane onboard Coventry, views of the decks, visit by Spanish officers at Ferrol in 1921, general views of visitors and officers.

Object Details

ID: ALB1407
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Warner, Gerald Harman
Date made: 1918-1922
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 215 mm x 262 mm x 33 mm