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no.8459

Launch of HMS Cumberland

16 Mar 1926

View of ship just in the channel with the first drag chains being made taut. Two funnel tug on right with rowing boats about to pick up the launch timbers. Group of workers on left with a man in a fireman uniform. She served in the South Atlantic Fleet, Home Fleet, Eastern Fleet and East Indies.

https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=10139

no.8459

Launch of HMS Cumberland

16 Mar 1926

View of ship just in the channel with the first drag chains being made taut. Two funnel tug on right with rowing boats about to pick up the launch timbers. Group of workers on left with a man in a fireman uniform. She served in the South Atlantic Fleet, Home Fleet, Eastern Fleet and East Indies.

Location: Vickers shipyard Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria Archives Reference: BDB 86/1/7908
Sankey Number: 8459

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