Information/Autograph request
Picture postcard sent by Bray to The Captain, H.M. The King's Yacht, Cowes, IOW on 4th December 1907 asking for his autograph and some information to be supplied.
Signed by Commodore Colin Keppel.
Admiral Sir Colin Richard Keppel GCVO, KCIE, CB, DSO (3 December 1862 - 6 July 1947)[1] was a British sailor and Extra Equerry to four kings.
Keppel received the thanks of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in June 1899 and became captain commanding HMS Wildfire. Keppel was transferred to HMS Spartan in the same year and to newly launched cruiser HMS Rainbow in 1900. He subsequently commanded HMS Warspite, and when that ship was relieved as flagship on the Pacific Station by HMS Grafton in March 1902, he transferred to Grafton as flag captain to Sir Andrew Bickford, Commander-in-Chief of that station. In 1905 he commanded the battleship HMS Implacable and was appointed Commodore, Commanding Royal Yachts. Keppel was awarded a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1906 and, after being promoted to rear admiral in 1908, he was advanced to a Knight Commander.
HMY Victoria and Albert was a royal yacht of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. The yacht was designed by the Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy Sir William White, launched in 1899 and ready for service in 1901. This was the third yacht to be named Victoria and Albert and she was fitted with steam engines fired by Belleville water-tube boilers. She served four sovereigns, and was decommissioned as royal yacht in 1939, served in the Second World War, and was broken up in 1954.
