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Liverpool Salvage Corps

Liverpool Salvage Corps, 1850. The top hat was standard undress headgear for fire brigade and salvage corps station officers until the eighteen eighties.

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16th April 202310th May 2023 StuartHistory of the British Fire Service, Midlands Fire Brigades Association, National Fire Brigades Association, National Fire Brigades Union

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Starboard

First-class cruiser “Gromoboi” On the starboard side abreast of after-bridge, showing the shattered sponson of 75 mm. gun aft of the side accommodation ladder; also damage from shells to the netting below the after-bridge, and holes through the unarmoured side at the level of the upper and battery decks.

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by Stuart 27th May 2023

Experiences on Board the “Zhemtshug”

“The days of the “Suvorov” were numbered both her funnels were down, and a thick smoke was trailing over her. I saw her bearing away to port, trying to get beyond the range of fire, whilst the squadron continued the battle away to port. “I recollect why the “Zhemtshug” approached the battleship “Imperator Alexander III”,…

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by Stuart 27th May 202327th May 2023

Mainmast to Stern

First class cruiser “Gromoboi” After-part of the ship from mainmast to stern, starboard side – general view of damages received; shattered sponson and carriage of 75 mm. gun, and holes through the unarmoured side, two on the level of the battery deck, in the network below the after-bridge, and on the upper deck.