Photograph album relating to HMS ALEXANDRA, 1886-1889.

Photograph album covering Cowan’s service as a midshipman on HMS ALEXANDRA (1875), flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet, in the period 1886-1889. There is a series of photographs showing the grounding and sinking of HMS SULTAN (1870) on rocks off the island of Comino in 1889. The other vessels featured include HMS JUMNA (1866), HMS SEAFLOWER (1873), HMS TAMAR (1863) and HMS TEMERAIRE (1876), and some Italian ironclads. There are topographical views of Naples, Lisbon, Genoa, Pompei, Syracuse, Taormina, Smyrna and Athens.
Includes two studio photographs of men in traditional Albanian dress, jointly captioned ‘Albanian Swashbucklers', plus another photograph entitled ‘Montenegrin Swashbuckler’.

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ID:	COW/18
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Cowan, Walter Henry
Date made:	1886-1889
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 album
Parts:	Cowan, Sir Walter Henry, 1st Baronet, Admiral, 1871-1956. (Manuscript) Journals, 1893-1897. (Manuscript) (COW/1) Captain's orderbook of HMS GLOUCESTER,1910, and HMS ZEALANDIA, 1914. (Manuscript) (COW/2) Track charts of naval actions, 1916-1941. (Manuscript) (COW/3) Telegram from the Admiralty relating to the achievements of the Baltic Fleet, circa 1920. (Manuscript) (COW/4) Photographs, 1916-1922. (Manuscript) (COW/5) Album of letters, commissions, signals and memoranda, 1889-1931. (Manuscript) (COW/6) Letters received, 1921-1954. (Manuscript) (COW/7-9) Letters, 1917-1949. (Manuscript) (COW/10-12) Appointments, certificates, letters and signals, 1884-1955. (Manuscript) (COW/13) Photographs, ephemera and a set of military uniform prints, 1840-1952. (Manuscript) (COW/14) Official papers 1919-1920 and letters received 1939-1945. (Manuscript) (COW/15-16) Typescript for autobiography 'The Wheel of Fortune'. (Manuscript) (COW/17) Photograph album relating to HMS ALEXANDRA, 1886-1889. (Manuscript) (COW/18) Album of photographs and cuttings, 1884-1914. (Manuscript) (COW/19) Album of photographs and cuttings, 1913-1928. (Manuscript) (COW/20) Photograph albums covering a visit to Risalpur, 1947. (Manuscript) (COW/21) Book of newspaper cuttings relating to the Sudan and South American campaigns. (Manuscript) (COW/22) Scrapbook, 1916-1920. (Manuscript) (COW/23) Volume of newspaper cuttings, 1870-1889. (Manuscript) (COW/24) Prints from the 'County Gentleman', circa 1890-1899. (Manuscript) (COW/25) Pamphlet 'Silhouettes of German Fighting Ships', 1915. (Manuscript) (COW/26) Pamphlet 'The Crumbling of an Empire'. (Manuscript) (COW/27) Pamphlet 'The Old Naval Dockyard, Antigua'. (Manuscript) (COW/28) Warrant granting the degree of baronet, 1921. (Manuscript) (COW/29) Grant of armorial bearing, 1921. (Manuscript) (COW/30) Message of homage and a ceremonial proclamation, 1922-1926. (Manuscript) (COW/31)

Photograph album relating to HMS ALEXANDRA, 1886-1889.

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