Channel Fleet Visit to Blackpool – 1907

The Channel Fleet of 14 warships anchored off Blackpool between the 9th and the 11th of August.

The crews were given a Mayoral Reception in the Metropole Hotel on the 10th

Souvenir postcard showing the HMS Leviathan

HMS Leviathan was a 14,100-ton Drake-class armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy. Leviathan served in the First World War, surviving it to be sold for breaking up on 3 March 1920 to Hughes Bolckow of Blyth

Official medal issued for the Channel Fleet visit to Blackpool in 1907

Souvenier vesta match case

The reverse reads

OFFICIAL MOMENTO

OF THE VISIT OF THE

CHANNEL FLEET TO BLACKPOOL

9TH 10TH & 11TH AUGUST

1907

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