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My uncle in a photograph of the ship's company TB1, October 1914
A photograph of my uncle Frank Hanna, seated second from left, in the ship's company of Torpedo Boat Number One (TB1), a small craft that patrolled the East Coast of Britain from Immingham at the outbreak of WW1, before moving to Newhaven to patrol the English Channel. My uncle was in the first class of 100 men from the lower decks who were promoted to officers in a scheme initiated by Winston Chu…
Contributors
- Michael Hanna
Subject
- World War I
- World War I
Type of item
- Photograph
- Photograph
Date
- 1914-10
- 1914-10
- 1914-10
Contributors
- Michael Hanna
Subject
- World War I
- World War I
Type of item
- Photograph
- Photograph
Date
- 1914-10
- 1914-10
- 1914-10
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Creation date
- 2013-01-18 17:29:26 UTC
- 2013-01-18
- 2013-01-18
Temporal
- europeana19141918:timespan/0fc3c9baf39397a459747cb4692c1fb2
Places
- Naval Warfare
Source
- UGC
Identifier
- https://1914-1918.europeana.eu/contributions/4882/attachments/54245
- 54245
Language
- eng
- English
Is part of
- EnrichEuropeana
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-09-11T08:22:43.921Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-06-05T08:05:33.085Z
Table of contents
- A photograph of my uncle Frank Hanna, seated second from left, in the ship's company of Torpedo Boat Number One (TB1), a small craft that patrolled the East Coast of Britain from Immingham at the outbreak of WW1, before moving to Newhaven to patrol the English Channel. My uncle was in the first class of 100 men from the lower decks who were promoted to officers in a scheme initiated by Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty. A contemporary journalist wrote that my uncle was the first officer from the lower decks to be given a command.