Picture No | 10216832 |
Date | 1910 |
Description | Poster for a Royal Navy Auction, 1910. |
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Poster advertising an auction held in 1910 to sell a number of obsolete Royal Navy vessels. The Navy was selling these five vessels to the highest bidder, but with the proviso that all these ships would be broken up in a British port within two years. The named vessels for sale were 'Centurion', 'Barfleur', 'Nelson', 'Melampus' and 'Pique'.
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Source | The Graphic. 1910. bottom middle page 56. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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