Photograph Album.- Maiden Voyage of the HMS Apollo, 1936.- c.200 mounted ethnographical, architectural, and topographical views by Able Seaman A. W. Ames, showing Gibraltar, Cuba, The Panama Canal, California, the Carolinas, Acapulco, the West Indies, Vancouver, Quebec, Newfoundland, Montreal, Manaus, and Haiti, also ship life and sports among the crew, hand-drawn chart in facsimile detailing the ship's route, programme for a performance of Cinderella at the Botanical Gardens Edgbaston in January 1914 loosely inserted, limp rexine, a little marked, oblong 4to, 1936-8.
⁂ Two years after its commission the ship was sold to the Australian navy and renamed the HMAS Hobart.
Inter alia Ames documents the embarkation of the body of Ramsey MacDonald at Bermuda and its return to Devonport.
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