[Order of Ceremony of] Review by Vice-Admiral A C G Madden, 7 June 1951
( HMS GANGES ) HMS GANGES.
In Honour of the Birthday of His Majesty the King.
A RARE SURVIVAL
Published: [Privately Printed], 1951
Stock code: 33079
Price: £66.00
8pp 8vo., printed in blue, with one full-page photograph; wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, fresh copy.
HMS GANGES (1865-1976) was the Royal Navy's junior rates training establishment at Shotley in Suffolk. Vice-Admiral Alexander Gordon Cumming Madden was then Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel. During WWII he commanded BIRMINGHAM and ANSON. In 1949, as Flag Officer Far East Station, he was involved with AMETHYST and the Yangtze Incident. EXTREMELY SCARCE.