Description
Object description
Assorted albums, loose prints and lantern slides from the archives of the former Admiralty Experimental Establishment at DERA Haslar. Including:
1 album showing the construction of the Admiralty Experimental Establishment test tank at Haslar, Gosport 1930 - 1932
7 albums showing the construction and opening (by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh) of the Admiralty Experimental Establishment Manoeuvering Tank at Haslar, Gosport 1957 - 1961
Print file (8 prints): aerial views of the Royal Naval Depot and Wireless Station HMS MALABAR based on Ireland Island, Bermuda, taken by an aircraft of HMS EXETER (seen in some of the photographs), 20 June 1934
39 prints mounted on loose album pages: views of the Naval Wireless Station installed by the Marconi Company near Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, 1915
3 prints: the launch of HMS CUTLASS (the last vessel to unslip from the Naval Gunboat Yard), 2 November 1977
19 prints: views of the first Experiment Works at Torquay c. 1872, some featuring William Froude (pioneer of the model testing technique)
20 prints: naval trials of Hydrofoil RHS 160 CONDOR V, November 1977. Includes close ups of the vessel's keel and foils as well as trials instrumentation
Print file (16 prints): low aerial views taken by NATO aircraft showing Russian submarines at sea during the Cold War. Includes Juliett class missile submarine (fitted to carry nuclear missiles), 11 September 1963 and Echo II class submarine fitted to carry nuclear cruise missiles, 25 April 1965
8 plastic mounted lantern slides: First World War and interwar subjects including hydrophones; view of Admiralty Experimental Station, Shandon, Dunbartonshire; members of The Physics Board (including Sir Henry Tizard, Prof Sir Ernest Rutherford, Prof Sir W H Bragg and Prof Sir J J Thompson) at the Mining School, Portsmouth, 1921