94 95 94. A CHINESE SILKWORK OF H.M.S. YARMOUTH
depicted in profile and entitled H.M.S. YARMOUTH / CHINA STATION 1913 -- 10 x 16in. (25.5 x 40.5cm.)
H.M.S. Yarmouth, a Weymouth class light cruiser built by London and Glasgow Co. was launched on 12 April 1911 and immediately commissioned in the 4th Battle Squadron of the Mediterranean Fleet until 1913, when she was sent to the China Station for a year. At the outbreak of War in 1914 Yarmouth joined the hunt for Emden, during which she sank two Axis merchants. Yarmouth was present at Jutland and afterwards refitted with an aircraft platform. In 1922 Yarmouth was at the Signals School in Portsmouth and, finally, she became the flagship of the Rear Admiral Submarines at Falmouth in 1928 but was sold for breaking a year later.
£80-120 96. A NAVAL-THEMED WALL CLOCK
with 3in. enamel dial, with black steel hands and winding arbor to continental pendulum movement, contained within a cast- brass decorative mount, with Royal motto, dolphins and anchor -- 12½in. (32cm.) high
£200-300 97.
H.M.S. ORIOLE: A CANDLE SCONCE/EPERGNE CONVERTED FROM A SPEAKING TUBE WHISTLE
inscribed H.M.S. T.B.D. OR IOLE, with drip tray, supported by four ball feet stamped EPNS on the underside, attached to oval base now supporting cut glass epergne -- 12in. (30.5cm.) high overall
£100-150 95.
AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY SAILOR’S WOOLWORK PICTURE OF H.M. TROOPSHIP DONGOLA
depicted steaming at sea and framed within a lifeboat inscribed H.M.T. DONGOLA with mauve background -- 15½in. (39.5cm.) square, framed and glazed
Named after a town on the Upper Nile, Dongola was one of four new vessels ordered for P. & O. in 1905. Built by Barclay Curle at Glasgow, she was registered at 8,038 tons gross (4,723 net) and measured 470 feet in length with a 56 foot beam. Powered by a pair of her builder’s own 8,000ihp. quadruple-expansion engines she had a cruising speed of 15½ knots and cost £160,167. Designed for the India-China mail run, and to be used as a troopship when required, she entered service in November 1905 and in 1907 made a record run from Southampton to Bombay in 18 days 7 hours. Employed briefly as a hospital ship in the Dardanelles in 1915, she spent most of the Great War as a troopship. Returning to peacetime duties she undertook valuable relief work after the Yokohama earthquake in 1923 and was sold for scrapping in 1928.
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