Liverpool, HMS Hercules 1890
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The Royal Navy once had much stronger ties with Liverpool than it does now. Quite often the whole of the Channel Fleet would exercise in the Irish Sea, and then have a three- or four-day visit to Liverpool. This would show the merchants and people of Liverpool that England had the power and might to look after its Merchant Fleet. Here the Frith photographer has captured two Royal Navy ships during one of those visits. HMS 'Hercules' was an apt name for an iron-clad battleship. Launched in 1868, she was twenty-two years old when our photograph was taken, and had been overtaken by newer ships with more and better guns that could cover the front and rear of the vessel. 'Hercules' could really only fire broadside.
An extract from Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories.
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