Object number : AR.1981.176.1.532

Production date/period : 1907
Production place : Devonport

General Description : A photograph showing a view of the ballroom setup onboard HMS DEFIANCE, there is a sectioned naval mine on the table in the corner and two torpedoes suspended from the deckhead. Labelled as ‘The Ballroom. Corner shews [sic] the Mine – This room is 3 lecture rooms cut into one – N.B:- The old & new type of torpedo’ and is in a series of images titled ‘”DEFIANCE”, Libertymen, Ballroom & “CLEOPATRA”’.

Copyright holder : Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

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