Portsmouth Gallery

Spithead Review 1924 EPW011365

REVIEW OF THE FLEET, Spithead, Portsmouth. The Spithead Review in July 1924, at which George V presented colours to the Royal Navy. The Royal Yacht (HMY Victoria and Albert) is leading the review party, with the King and Prince of Wales aboard. Some of the 196 warships present had fought at the Battle of Jutland. Aerial photograph taken from a copy negative. Aerofilms Collection (see Links)

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Portsmouth Town Hall BL10401

The Guildhall, Portsmouth, from the north shortly after completion, September 1890. Photograph taken by Bedford Lemere and Company for the architects William Hill and Son of Leeds and J P Mountain. Built as the Town Hall, it was renamed the Guildhall in 1926 after Portsmouth achieved city status

Civic Building, Town Hall, Victorian

The sinking of the Mary Rose during the Battle of the Solent, 1545, 1778 (engraving)

BAL362926 The sinking of the Mary Rose during the Battle of the Solent, 1545, 1778 (engraving) (later colouration) by Basire, James (1730-1802) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Encampment of the English Forces near Portsmouth; The naval Battle of the Solent took place on 18 and 19 July 1545 fought between the fleets of Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England, in the Solent channel off the south coast of England between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight; The attacking fleet was repelled saving Portsmouth and England from French invasion; last moments of the Mary Rose; English warship; vice-flagship; sinking off Southsea Castle; with loss of most of the crew of 185 soldiers; 200 seamen and 30 gunners;); British, out of copyright

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