H.M.S.

(untitled cruiser of the Orlando class, with one flag on foremast)

Reference Number:- Sprake Number:- Godden Number:-
st 280 unrecorded 31g
 

colour image of unknown battle cruiser

Words:
Woven on silk:-
 

Printed at bottom of card-mount:-
 

 

Size:
Card-mount:
cm deep by cm wide

silk:
cm high by cm wide

Comments:

by Austin Sprake:
 

by Geoffrey Godden:
A series of silks depicts six named naval vessels (and at least one unnamed); and the general title 'Battleships' is to be found on some early twentieth-century labels from 33+33 of late 1901 or early 1902. These battleship Stevengraphs are very rarely found today. They were perhaps mainly sold at the naval ports, where they would soon have become 'dated' or old-fashioned. The different titles are listed [as st280 to st328 on this site].
An untitled battleship is shown on this extremely rare Stevengraph (above).

Other comments: 
Whilst Godden refers to this as a "battleship", it has been subsequently identified as an Orlando class cruiser.

 



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