Saturday 1 August 2015

Irony?

Box of Matches, Purchased in Portsmouth

"England's Glory", made in Sweden ...


The Wikipedia page on HMS Devastation (and on that of England's Glory matches) claims that the ship depicted on England's Glory Match Boxes is Devastation, which appears to be the best fit for the image (the other possible candidate, other than Devastation's sister Thunderer, would be HMS Dreadnought of 1875 but that is not as good a fit).