Photograph album showing shipboard life during the First World War at sea and on leave.
Photograph album showing shipboard life during the First World War at sea, including commissions of HMS GLORY, HECTOR (balloon ship), and RESOLUTION (1914 - 1919). Subjects include Halifax, Malta, naval airship station at Mudros, the Dardenelles and Anzac Cove, the initial advance of the light cruisers at Jutland and the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet. Also included are family and home photographs taken while on leave, chronologically interwoven between commissions.
Record Details
| Item reference: | RYN/5; MSS/79/105 MS1979/105 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Personal collections |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Extent: | 1 folder |
| Date made: | 1914 - 191918; 1914 - 1918 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Log of HMS REVENGE kept by Midshipman Geoffrey Middleton Randall Rayne. (Manuscript) (RYN/1)
- Log of HMS REVENGE, HMS EUROPA, HMS DIADEM, HMS DOLPHIN and HMS JUPITER kept by Midshipman Geoffrey Middleton Randall Rayne. (Manuscript) (RYN/2)
- Memoranda concerning naval support for landings at Gallipoli and evacuation. (Manuscript) (RYN/3)
- Rayne's personal diary on HMS HECTOR, HMS HERCULES AND HMS RESOLUTION with newspaper clippings. (Manuscript) (RYN/4)
- Photograph album showing shipboard life during the First World War at sea and on leave. (Manuscript) (RYN/5)
- Negatives of photos including Halifax and Malta. (Manuscript) (RYN/6)