Original Photograph Royal Navy. HMS "Bleasdale" destroyer. WW2. Fine! Sept, 1950

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Seller: 24jcab ✉️ (9,127) 100%, Location: London, GB, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 166675151143 Original Photograph Royal Navy. HMS "Bleasdale" destroyer. WW2. Fine! Sept, 1950. Original Photograph Royal Navy. HMS "Bleasdale" Hunt class destroyer. Port view. Served during WW2. Fine condition! Sept, 1950

     

This is a stamped, identifiable, original print stamped Wright & Logan, Southsea (copyright) for the discerning & selective Collector.  

                                                                   The watermark "24JCAB" does not form  part of the image.

WRIGHT & LOGAN

  Wright & Logan  were  Naval Photograph & Postcard specialists  base in Hampshire. Their famous Collection of around 22,000 negatives, mostly glass plates, of Warships from 1924-1998 is one of a handful of significant assemblages of Royal Navy images in the world.

This amazing Collection was acquired by the Royal Naval Museum  who are cataloguing and preserving these images for posterity. These are no longer being published by Wright & Logan.

This image is one of a vast Collection (inclusive of W & L images) which is linked to the premier names involved in the taking of photographs and publishing of Naval Postcards and photographs over the past 100 years.

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PROVENANCE

This fine photograph   is from a Superb World Class Collection that I purchased from auction. The original Owners spent decades assembling this collection.  Highly knowledgeable, meticulous and clearly attached to their work they could even identify the time and place where these images were taken!

This is a  rare “working” collection  (started at least 70 years ago) involving the premier professionals ( e.g. Richard Perkins ) who were photographing, producing, identifying and collecting these postcards and photographs of Royal Navy vessels particularly of the early 20th century. Along with these even came the filing system!

Even if there are multiple real photographic postcards of individual ships each postcard is different whether taken from the bow, stern, starboard or port side!   A Truly remarkable collection!

Description

HMS "Bleasdale"   was a  Hunt-class   destroyer  of the  Royal Navy . She was a member of the third subgroup of the class, and saw service in the  Second World War . All the ships of this class were named after  British fox hunts . She was the first Royal Navy warship with this name, after the Bleasdale hunt in  Lancashire .  In 1942 she was adopted by the civil community of  Garstang  in  Lancashire , as part of  Warship Week .

On commissioning Bleasdale  served in the English Channel. In 1942 she was allocated as part of the Naval escort force for the unsuccessful Dieppe Raid  in July 1942. In 1943 she remained in the English Channel. In 1944 she served mostly in the English Channel and was part of the escort force for the assault and landings in Normandy, as part of the D-Day operations. She provided gunfire support on Juno Beach.

In 1945 she was nominated for service in the Far East and underwent refit before passage. She was at Port Swetteneham in the Far East when the Japanese surrender was signed. She returned to the UK and was paid off at Chatham and placed in reserve on 16 November 1945.

In February 1946 she was recommissioned for the Nore Local Fltilla and the following year too part in Operation 'Big Bang'for the demilitarization of German defences at Heligoland. On 21 April 1952 she was again placed into reserve at Sheerness.

She was subsequently placed on the disposal list sold for scrap to Hughes Bolckow . She arrived at their ship breaking  yard at Blyth on 14 September 1956.

Back:         "Bleasdale" 9/50.

Condition:   Fine image.  Postcard sized. Fine card Stock.    See high resolution scans for details.  

Shipping:     Each card is shipped in a hard backed envelope with "PLEASE DO NOT BEND" on the front. Cards will be doubled up if more than one is purchased.

ALL photographs that we sell are ORIGINALS . We have scanned directly from the original photograph and the image may sometimes be less vibrant than the postcard itself.

                                      As a collector I hope you enjoy this purchase as much as I enjoy those that I collect!

  • Antique: No
  • Type: Photograph
  • Original/ Reprint: Original Print
  • Period: 1950s
  • Theme: Navy Ships.
  • Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
  • Modified Item: No
  • Subject: Royal Navy

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