8459, BDB 86/1/7908 Sankey Family Photographic Archive © Cumbria Archives
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.
8459, BDB 86/1/7908 Sankey Family Photographic Archive © Cumbria Archives
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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Album Number: Album 14
Page Number: 42
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| 8450 | Submarine M2 | HM Submarine M2 in Walney Channel? | |
| 8451 | Nova Scotia | SS Nova Scotia in open water | |
| 8452 | Vickers Wharf | Scythia and Antonia at Vickers fitting-out wharf Buccleuch Dock | |
| 8453 | Otranto | TSS Ortranto passing Piel Island | |
| 8454 | Otranto | TSS Ortranto passing Piel Island | |
| 8455 | Launch of HMS Cumberland (16/3/26) | HMS Cumberland launching into Walney Channel | |
| 8456 | Launch of HMS Cumberland | HMS Cumberland launched into Walney Channel | |
| 8457 | Launch of HMS Cumberland | HMS Cumberland entering Walney Channel | |
| 8458 | Launch of HMS Cumberland | HMS Cumberland in Walney Channel after launch | |
| 8459 | Launch of HMS Cumberland | HMS Cumberland launching into Walney Channel |
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