Naval & Nelson
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24. H.E. FRECKER, 20TH CENTURY
The Battle of Jutland Signed ‘H.E. Frecker’ (lower left) Pencil on paper
5½ x 15in. (14 x 38cm.); together with a print after W.M Birchall of battleships in convoy, published by J.F.E. Grundy, 1918, stamped and signed lower left -- 6 x 9in. (15 x 23cm.)
(2) £100-150
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THE BELL FROM THE RIVER CLASS DESTROYER H.M.S. BOYNE, 1905
with moulded rim and shoulder, inscribed in black-filled lettering as per title -- 12½in. (32cm.) high; associated clapper and knot- work pull
Ordered from Hawthorn Leslie under the 1903-4 programme, Boyne was laid down in February 1904, launched that September and completed in May 1905. Displacing 545 tons and measuring 222 x 23½ feet, she was initially armed with five 6-pounders, but from 1907 that became four 12-pounders and two torpedo tubes. Surviving the Great War, she was sold for breaking in August 1919, but seems to have been sunk as a target. This bell was recovered from the wreck in 1988 and a letter from the Ministry of Defence accompanies it, conferring rights to the vendor.
£1000-1500 25 26.
AN INTERESTING PRIVATE ARCHIVE KEPT BY CAPTAIN, LATER THE REV. VICE-ADMIRAL, A.R.W. WOODS
beginning from around the outbreak of war in 1914 until 1925 with some later insertions and comprising signal and cypher logs liberally over-filled with a mass of ephemera including photographs, letters, programmes, menus, personal and official papers, etc. from his career aboard several vessels, the first volume predominantly war-related, the second volume includes several photographs of King George V aboard, the second inscribed with owner’s name and marked ‘PRIVATE’
(2)
Rev. Vice-Admiral Alexander Riall Wadham Woods, D.S.O. (1880-1954) joined the navy in 1894. He served throughout the Great War and was present at the Battle of Jutland as flag officer to Jellicoe aboard Iron Duke, for which he was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the D.S.O. Later in the War he commanded the light cruiser Topaze. After the War he was Captain of the Dockyard and the King’s Harbourmaster at Portsmouth. He retired a rear-admiral in 1931 and promoted vice- admiral in 1936. He was ordained deacon in 1933 and priest a year later. He made his home the Red Ensign Club in Stepney and was a familiar and popular figure there and in the dockland parish of Whitechapel.
£500-800
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26 detail: George V aboard ‘Iron Duke’, Woods third from right additional images online at
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