H.M.S. KING GEORGE V Battleship. First of class bearing this name. Completed 1940. Length 739 ft. Beam 103 ft. Displacement 35,000 tons. Main armament, ten 14-inch and sixteen 5.25-in. guns. 4 Aircraft. 152,000 h.p. Speed 30 knots Complement 1,500.

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H.M.S. KING GEORGE V Battleship. First of class bearing this name. Completed 1940. Length 739 ft. Beam 103 ft. Displacement 35,000 tons. Main armament, ten 14-inch and sixteen 5.25-in. guns. 4 Aircraft. 152,000 h.p. Speed 30 knots Complement 1,500.

"We have to gain the Victory. That is our task."

Publisher: J. Salmon Ltd. (British, founded in 1880)

British

Medium/Technique Chromolithograph on card stock.

Dimensions Horizontal: 8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder

Accession Number2015.3420

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsPrints and Drawings

ClassificationsPostcards

DescriptionBack: divided. Mint.
SALMON SERIES 4754
COPYRIGHT. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. SALMON LTD., SEVENOAKS
Printed in England

Signed BERNARD W. CHURCH

ProvenanceBetween 1950 and 2015, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in Europe and the United States; 2015, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)