This is a photograph album with a cord binding, prefaced with an itinerary of HMS Cornwall's ports of call with track-charts of HMS Cornwall's movements 12 May 1928 to 15 Decmber 1930 inside the near cover. There are 40 leaves and 261 photographs (108mm x 70mm) in corner mounts and captioned.
The album describes HMS Cornwall's voyage to China, May 1928 to November 1928 and her subsequent ports of call on the China station, including: Plymouth, Las Palmas, Brazil, Ururguay, Argentina, Falkland Islands, Chile, Peru, Honolulu, Hong Kong, Wei Hai Wei, Shanghai, Japan, Korea.