Naval interest: illustrated journals, Count A. D. R. Metaxa R.N.

Naval interest

Two manuscript journals compiled by Count A. D. R. Metaxa R.N., chronicling service aboard HMS Resolution (1921 - 1922), with c. 100 tipped-in drawings, and HMS Cambrian (1922 - 1924), with c. 66 drawings; including drawings of ships encountered, technical diagrams, hand-drawn maps and plans, photos, etc., many folding; original cloth albums, folio (2)

Locations include: various UK, Gibraltar, Villefranche, Malta, Naples, Palermo, Corfu, Genoa, Sardinia, Lisbon, Majorca, Madeira.

Subjects such as: ‘Japanese battleship Nagato’; ‘U.S.S. Massachusetts’; ‘Kitchen reversing rudders’; 'Liner Empress of Canada’; ‘new Cunard liner Scythia’; ‘types of British aircraft’; ‘review of Atlantic Fleet’; ‘Submarine XI’; ‘Greek destroyer Panther’; R38 - ZR2 zeppelin 'after the crash in the Humber'; 'H. M. S. Hood'.