Two Good large Size Inter War Naval Photo’s HMS Conway

HMS Conway was a naval training school or "school ship", founded in 1859 and housed for most of her life aboard a 19th-century wooden ship of the line. The ship was originally stationed on the Mersey near Liverpool, then moved to the Menai Strait during World War II. While being towed back to Birkenhead for a refit in 1953, she ran aground and was wrecked, and later burned.
The smaller of the two pics shows the Conway’s boat race racing crew, taken in June 1929, each man is named some with their crew positions, it has been signed ‘love Derek’ bottom left and this ties in with the larger picture which has on the back ‘Derek right hand corner of picture’ I am assuming that this is the complete ships compliment of the Conway including the nurse, two other ladies and one man in civvies, some of the boys look so very young but would probably have served in WW2. Both pics come in very good condition, the larger measures 13.5 inches x 8 and the smaller is 8.5 inches x 6.5 with the mount being 12 x 9.

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