Royal Navy - In Memoriam Cards. 1870-1925 Cards for 500 sail...

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Royal Navy - In Memoriam Cards. 1870-1925 Cards for 500 sailors lost in H.M.S "Captain" in 1870 (also a printed verse on the loss, sold on behalf of the relief fund), 1893 card to a sailor drowned by the foundering of H.M.S "Victoria", 1900 Brighton naval boating disaster, 1910 card to a sailor killed on H.M.S "Bellerophon", 1914 card for sailors lost on the Submarine A1, 1916 cards for Lord Kitchener lost on H.M.S "Hampshire" (7, also six postcards, memorial service programme and invitation), 1925 card for sailors lost on Submarine M1. Also a 1905 postcard of the funeral of a sailor from Submarine A8, 1931 postcard to the crew of submarine "Poseidon" sunk off Wei-Hai-Wei and a postcard commemorating the submarine H.M.S "Thetis" sunk in Liverpool Bay in 1939. (30).