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NAVAL – ROYAL FAMILY AND TRAINING SHIP BRITANNIA Papers and photographs of Guy Mainwaring, First Lieutenant on the Royal Navy training ship HMS Britannia at Dartmouth, 1878-1881, in a large ironbound naval trunk
15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
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NAVAL – ROYAL FAMILY AND TRAINING SHIP BRITANNIA
Papers and photographs of Guy Mainwaring, First Lieutenant on the Royal Navy training ship HMS Britannia at Dartmouth, 1878-1881, including a fine large photograph album of life on board the ship, comprising some 170 photographs including shots of, or incorporating, the royal cadets Prince Albert Victor (Eddy) and his younger brother Prince George (later George V), two photographs of them signed on the mount ("Edward" and "George"), plus a signed photograph of the princes' tutor, John Dalton, half calf, folio; a framed photograph of the cutter from the Britannia at the time of the Prince and Princess of Wales's visit, signed by members of the crew, including Princes Eddy and George, 23-24 July 1878; a photograph album kept by Mainwaring when commander of HMS Ganges; log books kept by him earlier on HMS Revenge, flagship of Rear Admiral Robert Smart, HMS Leander and HMS Sutlej, flagship of Rear Admiral J. Kingcome (sailing in home, Mediterranean and Pacific waters, illustrated with watercolour littorals, charts and engineering drawings, 1864-5), and on HMS Leander, Galatea, Wivern, Immortalité; plus a clothes and slop list ledger for HMS Immortalité; a volume of related press-cuttings; a pair of cufflinks (with note stating that they were presented to Mainwaring by Edward VII after his sons had passed out of Britannia), silver hunting horn presented to Mainwaring by the whips of the Britannia Beagle pack (which Mainwaring founded), 1880; two seal matrices, a pocket chronometer by Henry Bright of Leamington, a brass nameboard 'Captain Mainwaring/ Rickarton'; a portrait in watercolour over pencil of Rear-Admiral Rowland Mainwaring, c.1813-15 (for whom see the ODNB), and later portrait of him, in a large ironbound naval trunk bearing Admiral Rowland Mainwaring's nameplate
Footnotes
The sons of Edward VII, Princes Eddy and George, served on HMS Britannia in 1877-8; the latter afterwards recalling: 'It never did me any good to be a Prince. The Britannia was a pretty tough place, and so far from our benefiting, the other cadets made a point of taking it out of us, on the grounds that they would never be able to do it later on. There was a lot of fighting among the cadets, and the rule was if challenged you had to accept. So they used to make me go up and challenge the bigger cadets. I was awfully small then, and I'd get a hiding time and again. But one day I was landed one on the nose that made me bleed. It was the best blow I ever had, as the doctor forbade me to fight any more' (Dudley de Chair, The Sea is Strong, 1961, p. 17). In 1878 Lieutenant Mainwaring introduced the custom whereby a photo was taken of each term which passed out of Britannia (E.P. Statham, The Story of the 'Britannia', 1904, pp. 107-8). Mainwaring also instituted the Britannia Beagle pack.