Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1902
26 June 1902 - 300 men of H.M.S. Terrible got over the side to form the words 'God Save The King' 20 feet deep whilst 400 men lined the deck. <Read more ...>
Where: As the title says, we're inside the "stoke-hole"* in the Royal Navy's HMS Terrible, a Powerful class of protected cruiser [1]. The men are feeding coal to the fire that heats the boilers, generating the steam that powered the ship's engines. (* - This photo describes it as a "stoke-hole", but the Navy book quoted below calls it a "stokehold".)
When: The copyright date on the photo is 1902.
A book about the ship, The commission of H.M.S. "Terrible," 1898-1902 [2], says the Terrible first arrived in Hong Kong on <Read more ...>
