Channel Fleet Visit to Blackpool – 1907
20 November 2010
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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