The Ironclad Squadron saluting at the Holyhead breakwater, [north Wales], 1873. The future King Edward VII performed the official ceremony of opening the new harbour. 'A salute was fired from a detachment of the Channel Fleet [Royal Navy warships], which included the Hercules, Northumberland, Sultan, and Devastation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.
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