Battlecruiser HMS Hood, seen from HMS Nelson Size:L: 90 x 60cm the future King Olav V

the future King Olav V of Norway

She served in the Pacific in the last few months of World War II but was sold to the Netherlands in 1948

From The Story of the White House

operated by a petrol driven air-compressor

Battlecruiser HMS Hood, seen from HMS Nelson Size:L: 90 x 60cm the future King Olav VBattlecruiser HMS 'Hood', seen from HMS 'Nelson', 1937. The largest warship in the Royal Navy, HMS 'Hood' exploded and sank while engaging the German battleship 'Bismarck' and the heavy cruiser 'Prinz Eugen' in the Denmark Strait on 24th May 1941. Only 3 of her crew of 1418 survived. Cigarette card from The Navy series, produced by Senior Service Cigarettes, 1937.