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| Blighty and Sea Pie > Sea-Pie > June 1917 > (3) Page xvii - Britannia souvenirs |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74458416 |
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| Description | Advertisement for 'Britannia Souvenirs' . This advertisement shows an artist's impression of the Naval training vessel 'Britannia'. The advertisement is headed '"Britannia" Souvenirs', and the caption above the picture explains 'H.M.S. "Britannia", for 36 years the Training Ship for Britain's Naval Cadets. Now being dismantled to make Munitions of War, Souvenirs, War Shrines and Memorials.' The souvenirs were available either by mail order or at the London showrooms of Hughes, Bolckow & Co. Ltd. Britannia is a traditional name for ships in Great Britain. There was a Royal Navy ship named 'Britannia' as far back as the eighteenth century, and another ship of the same name was part of Admiral Lord Nelson's victorious fleet at Trafalgar in 1812. More recently, 'Britannia' was famous as the name of Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Yacht, which was decommissioned in 1997. |
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| Description | 'Sea-Pie' magazine was founded to raise funds for authorised naval charities. The first issue appeared on 23 June 1917, priced one shilling. The magazine typically contained short stories, poems, cartoons, and paintings and drawings, often on a nautical theme. |
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| Shelfmark | 6.88 |
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| Description | Editions of 'Blighty' (1917, 1918) and 'Sea Pie' (1917-1919), First World War magazines with pictures, stories, poems and humour. 'Blighty' was sent free to the men at the front and in the fleet. Profits from sales of 'Sea Pie' went to help sailors and their families. |
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