A note on the images
Now, I host this tiny website myself at very low cost, so I decided to post relative small images (typically about 1200 by 900 pixels) but in good quality. I realize that anything uploaded to the net is up for grabs, so I simply added a small watermark in the corner.
The first batch is a few shots of HMS Duke of York and HMS Anson prior and during breaking-up. It’s such a sad sight to see these vessels being reduce to scrap and one wonders what it would have been like to walk their decks as a museum visitor. But then again, not being able to adds to my fascination of these historical warships and what life on these vessels was like; living memory for some but to me a distant past.
2020: I added a few more images of HMS Howe and HMS KGV.
HMS Anson lying at anchor at Gareloch on the Clyde waiting for the breakers, watched from HMS Duke of York by her commander, Lieut. Neil Pascoe, with another large ship in the far background (possibly HMS King George V) , 1957.
The remainder of the images are postcards from the breakers yard at Faslane, dated 1958.
A very clear shot of the bridge superstructure of HMS Anson.
The rear of the bridge superstructure of HMS Anson, showing her Mk VI high-angle control directors with a type 275 radar, the only ship of the class thus fitted.
HMS Anson
Once you start building funnels you simply cannot resist collecting any photograph that shows you the interior, especially not one as clear as this one. I think this particular shot made me buy the entire batch.
HMS Howe at Inverkeithing (1958); nice close up of her rear funnel.
HMS Howe at Inverkeithing (1958)
HMS King George V in Dalmuir, (1958), showing what remains of X-turret.