Autograph request
Postcard sent by Bray to The Commander, HMS Triumph, c/o GPO, London on 16th September 1905 asking for his autograph.
Signed by Admiral SIR Frederic Edward Errington Brock.
Admiral SIR Frederic Edward Errington Brock, G.B.E., K.C.M.G., C.B. (15 October, 1854 - 1 November, 1929) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
HMS Triumph, originally known as Libertad, was the second of the two Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy. The ship was ordered by the Chilean Navy, but she was purchased by the United Kingdom as part of ending the ArgentineChilean naval arms race. Triumph was initially assigned to the Home Fleet and Channel Fleets before being transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1909. The ship briefly rejoined the Home Fleet in 1912 before she was transferred abroad to the China Station in 1913. Triumph participated in the hunt for the German East Asia Squadron of Maximilian Graf von Spee and in the campaign against the German colony at Tsingtao, China early in World War I. The ship was transferred to the Mediterranean in early 1915 to participate in the Dardanelles Campaign against the Ottoman Empire. She was torpedoed and sunk off Gaba Tepe by the German submarine U-21 on 25 May 1915.
