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	Peter Langsdale
	1941

County class cruiser, possibly HMS Cornwall

I just found this photo among my late father's effects - he was in the RAF as a rigger but attached to the Fleet Air Arm during WW2, mainly on HMS Eagle, and had been aboard her on the China station before the War, too. Guess he had probably been on leave in the UK and returned to the Indian Ocean (I know he was in Colombo, Ceylon at some stage) aboard this cruiser. I think it was HMS Cornwall, but could have been Dorsetshire, and the picture background indicates to me possibly Scapa Flow. I have also guessed the date as being 1941, but stand to be corrected - clues are the aircraft hangar, location of the bridge, etc.
The notes he put on the picture are:
1. My sleeping cabin (up to the present)
2. Hangar
3. Lower deck (bottom line of scuttles)
4. Main deck (top line of scuttles)
5. Upper deck
6. Flight and gun deck (level with floor of hangar)
Comments and corrections are welcome!
I have also put this picture on the ShipsandHarbours site in the hope of getting comments there.
Picture Added on 30 June 2008.