book about HMS Exeter’s maiden voyage (book)
Descriptions
A book published to record the events of HMS Exeter’s cruise following a re-commissioning in December 1936. The cruise lasted from 1936-1939.
During this time HMS Exeter visited many places in the South Atlantic including: Uruguay, Brazil, Barbados, Bermuda, Venezuela, Trinidad & Tobago, Panama, USA, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Argentina, St Kitts, Jamaica.
In 1939, part of the cruise coincided with a terrible earthquake at Valparaiso in Chile. HMS Exeter was involved in attending to the injured and sick.
This object is not on display.
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