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no.1190

HMS Hermione

c. 1911

View looking at the port side of an older 2nd Class Cruiser. Pilot flag ahead of ship's bridge and White Ensign at stern. Stationary in the channel near Ramsden Dock entrance undertow of a tug. Rowing boat in foreground on right. Hermione was a cruiser, 4360 tons displacement, built in 1893. She was in Barrow as tender to the airship and her officers conducted experiments with the hydroplane. HMS Hermione arrived in Barrow in Autumn 1910, sailed on 21 Oct 1911 to assist HMS Resource, aground on the Isle of Man, returned to Barrow on 7 Nov 1911 and finally departed on 2 Dec 1911. She was sold in 1921 and used as a training ship until scrapped in 1940.

https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=9628

no.1190

HMS Hermione

c. 1911

View looking at the port side of an older 2nd Class Cruiser. Pilot flag ahead of ship's bridge and White Ensign at stern. Stationary in the channel near Ramsden Dock entrance undertow of a tug. Rowing boat in foreground on right. Hermione was a cruiser, 4360 tons displacement, built in 1893. She was in Barrow as tender to the airship and her officers conducted experiments with the hydroplane. HMS Hermione arrived in Barrow in Autumn 1910, sailed on 21 Oct 1911 to assist HMS Resource, aground on the Isle of Man, returned to Barrow on 7 Nov 1911 and finally departed on 2 Dec 1911. She was sold in 1921 and used as a training ship until scrapped in 1940.

Location: Walney Channel, Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria Archives Reference: BDB 86/1/7403
Sankey Number: 1190

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1193    HMS Hermione Hermione at the dock entrance with a tug and a dredger in the background.
1194 HMS Hermione Close-up of gangway.
1283    HMS Dartmouth leaving Barrow 4-funnelled warship at sea
1284    HMS Dartmouth leaving Barrow In portrait, from the stern.
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