Flying Memories of the Royal Naval Airship Station, Pembroke

A bound brown leather covered album, embossed in gold leaf and containing 130 photographs, 23 flight track charts and 3 pages of drawings, with 2 loose photographs, taken at the Royal Naval Airship Station, Pembroke.

This album contains photographs of naval airships of the SS (Sea Scout), SSZ (Sea Scout Zero) and C types flown from the Royal Naval Airship Station at Pembroke. There are images of lighthouses. Aerial images of Royal Navy ships include HMS L10 (1918) and H25 (1918), HMS Pasley (1916) and HMS Curacoa (1917). Merchant ships include British India Company ship Neuralia (1912), and Cunard’s Mauretania (1907 ). There are also aerial views of the Pembrokeshire coast, Tenby, St David, Pembroke and Milford Haven docks – all taken from an airship. There are also 23 flight track charts, 5th August 1917 – 17th October 1918 and 3 pages of flying log, 5th August 1917 – 17th November 1918 presumably kept by the young RNAS officer (Lieutenant Leslie Chivers A. F. C.) whose photograph is at the front of the album.

Object Details

ID: ALB0112
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 5 August - 17 November 1918
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 267 mm x 407 mm