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1902 HMS Terrible

Submitted by moddsey on Thu, 2015-05-28 21:38
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.

HMS Terrible in Kowloon Dock

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2015-05-28 12:46
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1902
Places shown in this photo: 
Hong Kong, Kowloon & Whampoa Dockyards, Hung Hom [1868-????]
Admiralty Dock / No. 1 Dock [????-????]

This appears in the book The commission of H.M.S. "Terrible," 1898-1902, https://archive.org/details/commissionhmste00crowgoog, facing page 318.

HMS Terrible, King's Coronation

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2015-05-28 12:46
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1902

This appears in the book The commission of H.M.S. "Terrible," 1898-1902, https://archive.org/details/commissionhmste00crowgoog, facing page 324.

HMS Terrible, review by the Governor

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2015-05-28 12:46
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1900

This appears in the book The commission of H.M.S. "Terrible," 1898-1902, https://archive.org/details/commissionhmste00crowgoog, facing page 216.

In the stoke-hole of H.M.S. Terrible. Hong Kong, China. 1902.

Submitted by David on Mon, 2015-05-25 18:00
In the stoke-hole of H.M.S. Terrible. Hong Kong, China. 1902.

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

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