The Wallsend Shipyard's Visitors' Book: a handsome leather-bound volume spanning the years 1915 to 1958 and beginning with the signature of King George V below an illuminated scroll commemorating the royal visit on 19 May 1915; this page is followed by several others of signatures in a conventional tabulated form until the format is re-organised to give each new launching a separate entry, usually with a watercolured emblem of the ship's crest, badge or ensign to head the page and with ample space for signatures below. Full brown morocco decorated with gilt, titled spine and cover, with a slip case; a unique record of the output of one of Great Britain's most famous yards

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The Wallsend Shipyard's Visitors' Book: a handsome leather-bound volume spanning the years 1915 to 1958 and beginning with the signature of King George V below an illuminated scroll commemorating the royal visit on 19 May 1915; this page is followed by several others of signatures in a conventional tabulated form until the format is re-organised to give each new launching a separate entry, usually with a watercolured emblem of the ship's crest, badge or ensign to head the page and with ample space for signatures below. Full brown morocco decorated with gilt, titled spine and cover, with a slip case; a unique record of the output of one of Great Britain's most famous yards
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This fascinating volume contains an enormous number of signatures of which the following is a selection:
Royal Visits:
Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI) 16 April 1920
George, Duke of York 5 October 1933
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 20 December 1957
Launchings:
Captain Arthur Rostron, S.S. Mauretania S.S. Kutsang
(formerly Captain of the Carpathia and 19 October 1921
rescuer of the Titanic's survivors)

Marina, Duchess of Kent H.M.S. Leviathan 7 June 1945

Mrs Clement Atlee H.M.S. Albion
6 May 1947

Lady Dorothy MacMillan S.S. British Valour 19 December 1956

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