HMS Britannia - Dartmouth

[kc]

Here are a few photos which were added to the site in the last update. The Royal Navy training establishment at Dartmouth, HMS Britannia. Some very good group photos if anyone has relatives who were at the establishment around 1900.

http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/images/lge0113_hmsbritannia.jpg
HMS Britannia.

http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/images/hmsbritanniacrewalb4012.jpg
HMS Britannia - 1st XI Cricket Team 1899 - 1900.

http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/images/lge0111_hmsbritannia.jpg

We managed to get names for this group : On the far right, Thomson. The trio facing different directions on the left are from left to right: Copplestone, Fraser and Inglis. Continuing to the other two in the front row; Lyon and Davison. The two at the back are Nicholson and Baker, with the remaining three in the middle row: Leach, Lapage and Barrett, always from left to right.


More photos on the original page, and more yet to be uploaded to the page later. I expect we will be moving these to a page for the ship soon though. Here is the link for now anyway.

http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/ports_&_harbours.htm

[culverin]

HMS Britannia as depicted in top photo ship to the left started life as HMS Prince Of Wales, only being renamed as a component of the floating part of the new training establishment for officers based on the river Dart at Dartmouth from March 1869.
Surplus to requirements upon the construction of the new training facilities built ashore in 1905 she was sold on 13 Nov 1914 to Messrs Garnham, and despite efforts to secure her future for future generations, was resold to Hughes Bolckow ship breakers of Blyth, Northumberland for the princely sum of £8,700, arriving at their yard, battleship wharf, on 6 July 1916, to much interest, and an eminently rare event during this time of conflict.