Fleet Review: Spithead 1953

[romft1945]

A memorable year anyone else got any photos

1 Pretoria Castle steaming past the cruiser HMS devonshire
2 Queen and the Duke aboard Royal Yacht Surprise
3 HMS Redpole bottom left Royal Yacht Surprise behind her
4 Queen and Duke meet Capn rudakov of the Russian cruiser Sverdlov
5 Queen Mother and Princess Margaret join the royal Yacht

[The Sailor]

Here are a couple. HMS Vanguard was there and so was HMS Eagle

[astraltrader]

I have this postcard which is quite interesting...

[astraltrader]

I bought this one over the weekend.
It really shows that despite the massive scrapping of RN warships that had happened during the years 1946-1953, how huge our navy still was!

[John Brown]

Excellent photo Terry.

An impressive number of ships although, of course, not all of them belong to the British Navy.

Regards....John

[Batstiger]

I'm on there somewhere! HMS Largo Bay.
Let me know if you can see me!

Bob

[John Brown]

I can see you Bob. You appear to be standing on something thick and heavy........Oh!... It's your wallet:p


John