[Z] LOG BOOKS FOR H.M.S. ALBION (JANUARY 15 1909 – MARCH 17 1909) AND H.M.S. SWIFTSURE (MARCH 18 1909 – JULY 15 1910)

LOG BOOKS FOR H.M.S. ALBION (JANUARY 15 1909 – MARCH 17 1909) AND H.M.S. SWIFTSURE (MARCH 18 1909 – JULY 15 1910)

written and illustrated by R.G.W. Ord, Albion from Gibraltar to Portsmouth and back to Gibraltar, Swiftsure from Malta to Mersina, Ayas Bay, Portsmouth, Gibraltar, Suda Bay, Phaleron Bay, Malta, Gibraltar, Malta, Falmouth and Oban, 13 maps and charts, some coloured, some coloured in outline, 14 coloured drawings, nine plain drawings and three photographs, (rather damp-stained at the beginning), fairly standard logs almost exclusively concerned with ship's routine and tasks (coating, washing clothes, painting the ship and boats, making and mending clothes, etc.) 27 July 1909 King Manuel II of Portugal at lunch in the Swiftsure, and several games of football (the Swiftsure team beat an Athens team 4-0), hockey and cricket, half buckram, red Morocco label on spine (rather rubbed and stained), folio -- 12½ x 8in. (32 x 20.5cm.); together with a distressed Ord family scrap album and loose birth certificates, Eton School and Dartmouth Naval College examination papers, call-up telegrams, cartoons, family history chart 1470-1876 and college, on-board and ship photos, including ships' dog mascot

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