About this objectBlack and white photograph of HMS Phaeton, enhanced by hand, and with a handwritten name beneath the photograph, 'HMS PHAETON'. The photograph is mounted on cardboard with a faint black frieze.
The photograph depicts a light cruiser with three funnels and communication mast, on a misty day with the shoreline in the background. The ship was scrapped after WWI.
On the reverse is handwritten, 'W / 1 57972 / L Boursnell'.