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A RARE LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE PERTAINING TO EARLY ROYAL NAVY SUMARINE DEVELPMENT, COLLATED BY CAPT. JOHN MORETON RN, PROTÉGÉ OF ADMIRAL SIR REGINALD BACON


comprising approximately 170 sepia and b/w images of assorted sizes and state spanning this officer’s naval career between c.1895-c.1910, on tour in the training ship Calypso and including views of life aboard and ashore; a selection of fine full-page views of H.M.S. Centurion receiving guests, c.1900; a section of full-page views devoted to submarines H1, H2, H3, A3 and B1 from launch to trials, some impressed with stamp for ‘Vickers Sons & Maxim’; several full-page views of Dreadnought (1906), dressed overall, with guests, underway, displaying successful targets hit in practice; officer groups with Bacon from 1901 and 1906; and a quantity of loose images including rare views of the 15in. monitor Erebus, contained in two albums (partially disbound) and a loose folder, the albums -- 15 x 10in. (38 x 25.5cm.)


(a lot) £2000-3000


75: “Captain Bacon & officers HMS ‘Hazard’ 1901”


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75: A Royal Sovereign Class vessel docking at Portsmouth c1895


75: ? Captain Moreton c1906-7


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