The 1923 to 1924 world cruise of the "Special Service squadron".
HMS. Repulse Sir Frederick Laurence Field. HMS. Hood
Vice-Admiral commanding,
"Special Service Squadron".
The Images that make up this part of the website are scanned copies of 8"x6" photographs taken of pages from a part complete photograph album. The album was originally compiled from images recorded during the world cruise of 1923 to 1924 undertaken by H.M.ships Hood and Repulse and the accompanying "First Light Cruiser Squadron" consisting of H.M. ships Delhi, Dauntless, Dragon, Danae, and also H.M.A.S. cruiser "Adelaide".
Due to the fact that the individual images on each 8"x6" photograph only measure about 2"x1" each, I have had to considerably enlarge each page to obtain a worthwhile view. In order to allow these images to "download" in a fairly sensible time they have had to be relatively harshly compressed, even so, the individual file sizes are still in the region of 100kb. each.
They will present a useful image on your monitor screen, but, due to the compression used, I feel that it is unlikely that you will obtain a worthwhile print. You may of course try if you so wish.
I have separated the album into 10 sections which follow the progress of the ships as they travel around the world. I also suspect that there are a huge amount of photographs that were taken on this cruise but which do not appear in this album. If you have any photo's from this, or even any other events, which you would like to, perhaps, have made available for all to see via this medium, then please do not hesitate to contact me on dave@dave-page.co.uk and we can hopefully come to some arrangement.
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