3-053-635 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Shah viewing the fleet at Spithead, 1873.. 'Naval review at Spithead... The Shah, with the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Russian Imperial Prince, or Cesarewitch, and the Cesarevna, sister to our Princess, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Duke of Cambridge, attended by many persons of their several suites, went down from London to Portsmouth by a special train on the Monday morning, and embarked in the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert before eleven o'clock. They were first saluted afloat by the old wooden line-of-battle ships the Victory, the St. Vincent, the Duke of Wellington, the Asia, and the Donegal, moored near the Dockyard Pier. These ships, also the Indian troop-ships Crocodile, Serapis, and Euphrates, were completely dressed with flags. The Victoria and Albert, commanded by Prince Leiningen, with Admiral Sir Rodney Mundy in superior command, bore the Royal standard of Persia and that of the Prince of Wales together on her mainmast, the Union Jack on her bowsprit, and St. George's flag at her taffrail'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.