Lot Essay
H.M.S. Ajax found fame alongside Achilles and Exeter during the Battle of the River Plate where the German "pocket battleship" Admiral Graf Spee met her demise
Details
Two inter-war photograph albums of ship portraits
The first containing approximately sixty black & white images of fourteen vessels in the Royal Navy: cruisers (including H.M.S. Ajax), destroyers and submarines; the second album of approximately sixty black & white photographs of twenty foreign naval and merchant vessels (including R.M.S. Otranto), the images --14 x 10½in. (35.5 x 26.5cm.) approx; together with a Vicker-Armstrong Ltd souvenir album of inter-war Brazillian commissions; a letter dated 1938 from Vickers-Armstrong returning all the photographs to one Captain Smith and a small collection of informal photographs of crews etc
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The first containing approximately sixty black & white images of fourteen vessels in the Royal Navy: cruisers (including H.M.S. Ajax), destroyers and submarines; the second album of approximately sixty black & white photographs of twenty foreign naval and merchant vessels (including R.M.S. Otranto), the images --14 x 10½in. (35.5 x 26.5cm.) approx; together with a Vicker-Armstrong Ltd souvenir album of inter-war Brazillian commissions; a letter dated 1938 from Vickers-Armstrong returning all the photographs to one Captain Smith and a small collection of informal photographs of crews etc
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Provenance
These albums are thought to have been produced by Vickers-Armstong Ltd