For bid is an original September or October 1908 photograph of British Navy ship HMS GLADIATOR (1896) “beside her tugs” after she was towed to Portsmouth Harbor following her capsizing on April 25, 1908. Military ship about to be scrapped for metal years before World War I. If you look closely, you can see some men standing around on her deck…

Pencil writing on the back: “H. M. S. Gladiator towed into Portsmouth Harbor after five months submersion.”

Old photograph developed from what appears to be a glass negative. Old 1900’s photographic paper.

Royal Navy British naval history!

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