Description
Object description
The collection of prints taken on board the Royal Navy battleship HMS Albemarle while on guard and ice-breaking duty around Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast in northern Russia, 1916-1918. Each photograph is individually described by a former owner.
Collection includes:
1. Forecastle of the ship covered with ice.
2. Russian children playing outside a shop at Kola.
3. Concert on forecastle of the ship.
4. Commander of the ship on frozen forecastle - named by the crew as "Bastard".
5. Ratings praying on quarter deck.
6. The ship's Chaplain (according to the original caption the author of those images - H. R. Wilkinson ?) on frozen forecastle - original caption calls him "arch-hypocrite".
7. Russian workmen (employed on construction of a new railway) aboard the ship when she was opened for visitors.
8. Interesting image of the sea taken at white, polar night.
9. Ship crew conveying a cutter with HMS Intrepid in the background.
10. Ship crew taking up anchor.
11. General view of the frozen Kola River with four warships, HMS Albemarle on the extreme right.
12. Marines practising "Abandon Ship" routine in case of collision with another ship - putting out collision mats.
13. Ship cutting through the ice.
14. Physical training exercise on quarter deck.
15. Diving party at work - diver dissapearing below surface of water and emerging from water.
16. Crack left in the ice after ship cut through it.
17. Ship brought to a stop by extreme thickness of ice.
18. Sailors watching a cutter race from forecastle.
19. Russian children at Kola, thickly wrapped in clothing.
20. Russian officers and civilians aboard the ship with the commander.
21. Four photographs of the ship's pet mascots - "Teddy" the bear cub and "Pussy" the cat - playing together.
22. Coaling ship.
23. Armer liner "Arlauza" leaving for home.
24. Warships at the Alexandrovsk Harbour.
Physical description
Set of loose, original, black and white, small size prints. Annotations on the back of prints in pen.