Album relating to Royal Naval service of Admiral Sir Oliver Backhouse (died 1943)

15 leaves from a photograph album. There are 68 photographs and photogravures pasted in.
The album includes the following vessels: HMS Excellent (shore estab.) in 1905-08, HMS Hyacinth (1898) in 1903-05, HMS Cumberland (1902) in 1908.
Also included are the following locations: Calcutta, Algiers, Palermo, Alexandria, Malta, Portsmouth.
There also photographs of Cdr. A. E. M. Chatfield (later Admiral of the Fleet), King Edward VII, and also the visit of the French Fleet to Portsmouth in 1905.

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ID:	ALB0367
Type:	Photograph album
Display location:	Not on display
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 406 mm x 305 mm
Parts:	Album relating to Royal Naval service of Admiral Sir Oliver Backhouse (died 1943) Temple corridor at Ramanathaswamy Temple (Photographic print) (ALB0367.9) People standing in front of the water tank at Kapaleeshwarar Temple (Photographic print) (ALB0367.10) Nasrullah Khan watching a naval brigade march at Maidan in Calcutta [Kolkata] (Photographic print) (ALB0367.11) Calcutta [Kolkata] viewed from the High Court (Photographic print) (ALB0367.12) General Post Office in Calcutta and surrounding gardens (Photographic print) (ALB0367.13) Naval brigade of HMS Hyacinth (1898) at Government House, Calcutta [Kolkata] (Photographic print) (ALB0367.14) A ghat in Calcutta [Kolkata] (Photographic print) (ALB0367.15) Bengali people and boats on and next to the Hooghly (Photographic print) (ALB0367.34) The Burmese Pagoda in Eden Gardens, Calcutta [Kolkata] (Photographic print) (ALB0367.35) The pontoon bridge across the River Hooghly in Calcutta [Kolkata] (Photograph print) (ALB0367.36) A view of Calcutta [Kolkata] with the Ochterlony Monument (Photographic print) (ALB0367.37) Taj Mahal (Photographic print) (ALB0367.38) Kangchenjunga (Photographic print) (ALB0367.39)

Album relating to Royal Naval service of Admiral Sir Oliver Backhouse (died 1943)

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