This is a brown cloth covered album with a weak spine, binding broken and leaves brittle. The album contains 143 photographs glued to 40 leaves, most photographs are captioned. The album is decorated with daffodils.

Contents: This album relates to Commander George Arthur Titterton’s career when he was serving as a midshipman on HMS Exmouth (1901), 1907-1912. Ships represented include: HMS Arrogant (1896), HMY Victoria and Albert (1899), French Du Chayla (1895) and HMS Exmouth (1901) with groups &c on board, and Spanish Princesa de Asturias (1896), and SS Sardinia (1888) on fire and wrecked, Malta in November 1908. Places include Oban, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Quebec and Malta. There are also photographs of the Messina earthquake, 1908. HMS Exmouth played an important role in bringing aid to Calabrian villages and Titteron was awarded the Messina Earthquake medal for helping in rescue operations. The album includes the visit of King Edward VII at Malta in March 1909, Coronation Review at Spithead in 1911, fire at J.S. White & Co. shipyard at East Cowes in April 1911, G. J. A. Miles as a Lieutenant.

For Commander Titterton’s promotion dates see Album 860.

Page 1
Ephemera 1: Colour postcard of either RMS Lusitania (1906) or Mauretania (1904), no date.

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Photograph 2: The regatta crew with trophies, HMS Exmouth (1901), 1908.

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Photograph 3: Gun layers’ shield and regatta trophies, HMS Exmouth (1901), 1908.

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Photograph 4: Group photograph of Ward Room officers with trophy, HMS Exmouth (1901), 1908. Identified as: Lieutenants Farquharson, Bisset, Ballard, Beasley, Blane, Methuen and William Jolly, Clerk

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Photograph 5: Group photograph of Senior Lieutenant Blane with the ship’s heavy gun layers and their trophies, HMS Exmouth (1901), 1908.




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Photograph 6; Group photograph of the Gun Room, HMS Exmouth (1901), 1907-08. Identified as: Midshipmen Mackenzie, Marx, Millais, Moore, Mansfield, Harden, Titterton, Clerks Humphreys and Jolly.
Photograph 7: Group of midshipmen posing for the camera after coaling, HMS Exmouth (1901), ca.1908.

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Ephemera 2: Image of King Manuel II of Portugal when Duke of Beja, ca.1901.

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Ephemera 3: Image of King Carlos I of Portugal, no date.
Ephemera 4: Image of Prince Royal Luiz Filippe of Portugal, no date.
Ephemera 5 & 6: Two post card print views of the Jeronimos monastery, Lisbon, no date,

Pages 9 & 10
Ephemera 7 -10: Four views of the Jeronimus monastery, Lisbon, no date.

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Photograph 8: HMS Exmouth (1901) arriving at Lisbon, 1908.

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Photograph 9: French cruiser De Chayla (1894) at anchor, Gibraltar, 1908.
Photograph 10: Spanish cruiser (?) at Lisbon, 1908.
Photograph 11: Distant view of HMS Arrogant (1896) off Lisbon, 1908.
Photographs 12 & 13: Two views of Gibraltar, 1908.

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Photograph 14: Distant view of HMS Duncan (1901), Atlantic Fleet, ca.1908.

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Photograph 15: A Portuguese trooper at the funeral of the assassinated King Carlos of Portugal, 1908.
Photographs 16 & 17: Two views of Black Horse square showing bullet holes where King Carlos and his son were assassinated, Lisbon, 1908.
Photograph 18: The Portuguese cavalry at the funeral of King Carlos I, Lisbon, 1908.
Photograph 19: Monument of Liberty in the Almeida, Lisbon, 1908.

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Photograph 20: View of the Armoury where the bodies of King Carlos and the Crown Prince lay for a few hours, Lisbon, 1908.
Photograph 21: Hearse of King Carlos, Lisbon, 1908.
Photograph 22: Portuguese cavalry at the funeral of King Carlos, Lisbon, 1908.
Photograph 23: Black Horse square, Lisbon, 1908.
Photograph 24: Two officers of the Portuguese cavalry, 1908.
Photograph 25: State coach for Ambassadors attending funeral of King Carlos, Lisbon, 1908.

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Ephemera 11: Image of Montmorency Falls taken from the mountain, Quebec, no date.

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Ephemera 12 – 15: Four coloured views of Quebec, no date.


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Ephemera 16: Naval signal from the HRH Prince of Wales ‘bidding farewell to the Atlantic Fleet’, 29 July 1908.

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Photograph 26: View of the Ellerman steamship Sardinia (1888) ashore off Ricasoli rocks after a fire on board, Malta, November 1908. About 100 Arab pilgrims en route to Mecca were killed.

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Ephemera 17: Newspaper article entitled ‘Captain’s Defaulters’ by “ Bartimeus”, 15 June 1910.

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Photograph 27: View of the SS Sardinia (1888) on fire, Malta, 1908.
Photograph 28: View of Scylla, the Straits of Messina, January 1909.
Photograph 29: HMS Exmouth’s camp between San Giovanni and Straits of Messina. Provisions landed on beach on right of photograph, January 1909.

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Photographs 30 & 31: Two views of Sliema harbour, ca.1908.

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Photographs 32 – 34: Three views of Messina after the earthquake, January, 1909..
Photograph 35: Survivors of the earthquake, San Giovanni, Calabria, January, 1909.

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Photographs 36 – 38: Three views of San Giovanni after the earthquake with a man standing on the ruins of his house, January, 1909.
Photograph 39: A Royal Naval surgeon with survivors of the earthquake, San Giovanni, Calabria, January, 1909.

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Photographs 40 & 41: Two views of a Staff Surgeon Lieutenant at Canitello Camp, Calabria, January 1909.
Photographs 42 & 43: Survivors of the earthquake outside the barricade, Canitello, January, 1909.

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Photograph 44: Survivors at Canitello waiting for food, January, 1909.
Photograph 45: View of the cathedral at Messina after the earthquake, January, 1909.
Photograph 46: Italian soldiers who arrived at Canitello without provisions, January, 1909.
Photograph 47: Assistant Paymaster Haddon serving out rations to survivors at Canitello, January 1909.
Photograph 48: Temporary houses among the ruins at Canitello, January 1909.
Photograph 49: Group photograph of officers and ratings at Canitello Camp. Lieutenant Blane in charge, January, 1909.



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Ephemera 18: Newspaper cutting entitled ‘Royal Dockyard Reform. Admiral Henderson’s Work. A New Regime’, The Standard, 31 March 1906.



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Photographs 50 – 53: Four views of the ruins of Messina with survivors after the earthquake, January 1909.

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Ephemera 19: Newspaper cutting reporting the marriage of Commander Percy Johnson, HMS Antrim to Miss Dorothea Roffey at St Peter’s church, Thanet, no date.

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Photographs 54 – 57: Four views of the ruins of Messina after the earthquake, January 1909.

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Ephemera 20: A newspaper cutting entitled ‘Indoor and Outdoor Bathing’, no date.

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Photograph 58: The ruins at San Giovanni after the earthquake, January, 1909.
Photograph 59: The ruined Promenade at Messina after the earthquake, January, 1909.
Photograph 60: Italian soldiers handing out rations, Messina, January, 1909.
Photograph 61: View of a German cruiser off Messina, January, 1909.

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Ephemera 21: Newspaper cutting entitled ‘Service Studies, The Men behind the Guns’ by L Cope Cornford, no date.

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Photograph 62: View of Canitello razed to the ground after the earthquake, 1909.
Photograph 63: An Italian sentry, Canitello, 1909.
Photograph 64: An Armenian woman on a donkey, Adana,.1909.
Photograph 65: View of Marmorice Bay, 1909.
Photograph 66: Major [Doughty] Wylie, Consul at Adana and Captain Thursby, 1909.
Photograph 67: ‘George, the interpreter’, 1909.

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Ephemera 22: Naval signal from the Commander-in-Chief, HMS Exmouth bidding farewell to the ship’s company and reply, 17 May 1909.

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Photograph 68: Entrance to Marmorice Bay, 1909.
Photograph 69: The starboard propeller of HMS Exmouth (1901), 1909.
Photograph 70: ‘Hoist cutter alongside HMS Exmouth (1901) with Turkish crew masquerading as escaped from the massacres – really pirates waiting for Armenian refugees’, 1909.
Photograph 71: Boats crammed with Turks armed to the teeth, 1909.
Photograph 72: Armenian refugee camp, 1909.
Photograph 73: George, the interpreter at Adana, 1909.

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Ephemera 23: Newspaper cutting entitled ‘Some Bathing Types at the Seaside, no date.

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Photographs 74 & 75: Two views of the bow and stern of HMS Exmouth (1901), no date.
Photograph 76: River from Antioch strewn with corpses the day after the massacre, 1909.
Photographs 77 & 78: Two view of Adana, 1909.

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Photograph 79: HMS London (1899), HMS Bulwark (1899) and either HMS Aboukir or Bacchante dressed overall and saluting for Queen Alexandra’s birthday, 1 December 1908.

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Photograph 80: Duke of Connaught at a rifle meeting, Malta, April 1909.

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Photograph 81: Army and Navy Association football match on Corradino ground, Malta, 1909.

Pages 42
Photograph 82: Landing of King Edward VII at Malta, 1909.

Pages 43 & 44
Photographs 83 & 84: Review before King Edward VII on the Marsa sports ground, Malta, 1909.

Pages 45 & 46
Photographic postcards 85 – 90: Six coloured views of Oban, no date.

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Photograph 91: View of Loch Lomond, no date.

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Photograph 92: View of Tarbet and the Cobbler, no date.

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Photographs 93 & 94: Two views of HMS Exmouth (1901) illuminated at night, Malta harbour, ca.1909.
Photographs 95 & 96: Two views of the ship’s company (including Titterton) coaling at Malta, ca.1909.
Photograph 97: Distant view of the Lizard, no date.
Photograph 98: Distant view of the entrance to the Grand Harbour, Malta, ca.1909.

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Ephemera 24: Newspaper cutting re the fire at White’s shipyard, Cowes, 1911.
Ephemera 25: ‘At Home’ invitation from the Admiral President, Greenwich to Sub Lieutenant Titterton, 24 February 1911.

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Photographs 99 & 100: Two views of burnt out workshops at White’s shipyard, Cowes, 1911.
Photographs 101 & 102: Two views of Lieutenant-Commander H V Dundas with dog, HMS Harpy (1909), ca.1911.

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Ephemera 26: Handwritten notes re work carried out on HMS Harpy (1909), 15 April 1911.

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Photographs 103 & 104: Two views of workshops after the fire at White’s shipyard, Cowes, 1911.

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Photograph 105: Group photograph of Acting Sub Lieutenants, Navigation School, 1910.

Pages 55 – 57
Photographs 106 – 112: Seven views of the Royal Naval Review, 1911.

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Ephemera 27: Newspaper cutting re sinking of submarine HMS B2 (1905), 4 October 1912.

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Photograph 113: Group photograph of naval officers including Titterton, 1911.

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Photographs 114 -118: Five photographs of unidentified women posing for the camera with flowers and small dog, ca.1911.