Album relating to the H.M.S. Cumberland's tour of duty to China, as part of the British China Fleet, upwards of 250 images gelatin silver prints, corner mounted usually between 3 and 6 per page, all captioned and (most) dated in a neat white ink on the mount, images typically 80 x 110mm. (but some smaller, some larger), typed description of H.M.S. Cumberland tipped inside upper cover, contemporary cloth, oblong 4to, [1930-1931]

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Good album of photographs recording the voyage of H.M.S. Cumberland to China, including Hong Kong and Wei-Hai-Wei (c.120, including several of the ceremony at which the British handed back Wei-Hai-Wei to the Chinese, convicts carrying water, prostitutes, several of naval exercises, Peak railway and tram, "open air Barber's shop", "family washing day"), Nagasaki (8), Kagoshima (3), Yangtse Kiang (12), Hankou (16, including "Chinese quarters", promenade, "How China deals with Communists... 7.8.[19]30"), Peking/Beijing (18, including camel back bridge, bridge of 17 arches, Chinese wedding, view of Imperial Palace, Great Wall), Tsingtao (4), Nanking (4), Shanghai (10), ships of the China Fleet (18), "H.M.S. Poseidon sunk 21 miles north of Wei-Hai-Wei with loss of 20 lives. June 9th 1931 after collision with Chinese S.S. Yuta" (13, including funeral), "Yangste Floods of October 1931" (8).

Provenance: Samuel Saunders, Leading Signalman on H.M.S. Cumberland; thence by descent to the present owner.

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