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Blue Star Line ocean liner SS Avila Star on trial 1926
Photograph of the Blue Star Line ocean liner SS Avila Star on trial in 1926.

The Bridge front of the Blue Star Line ocean liner SS Avila Star
Photograph of the Bridge Front of the Blue Star Line ocean liner SS Avila Star.

Blue Star Line ocean liner SS Avila Star at the dockside in Clydebank, 1926
Photograph of Blue Star Line ocean liner SS Avila Star at the dockside in Clydebank.

HMS Tiger, Royal Navy Tiger-Class Battlecruiser: View of the stern, rudders and propellers from the shipyard floor
Photograph of the stern, rudders and propellers of HMS Tiger Royal Navy Tiger-class Battlecruiser taken from the shipyard floor.

HMS Tiger, Royal Navy Tiger-Class Battlecruiser: View amidships looking down on the three funnels towards the bow
Photograph of HMS Tiger, Royal Navy Tiger-Class Battlecruiser: View amidships looking down on the three funnels towards the bow.

HMS Tiger, Royal Navy Tiger-Class Battlecruiser: View amidships looking at the three funnels towards the stern
Photograph of HMS Tiger, Royal Navy Tiger-Class Battlecruiser: View amidships looking at the three funnels towards the stern.

HMS Tiger, Royal Navy Tiger-Class Battlecruiser: View port-side, looking at the forward turrets and the bridge superstructure
Photograph of HMS Tiger, Royal Navy Tiger-Class Battlecruiser: View port-side looking at the forward main gun turrets and the bridge superstructure.

Launch of RMS Lusitania of the Cunard Line, 1906
Photograph of launch of RMS Lusitania of the Cunard Line at John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank

RMS Lusitania on sea trials in the Firth of Clyde, 1907
Photograph of the Cunard Line ocean liner RMS Lusitania on trial at Clydebank