British submarine depot ship HMS Ambrose 1917-1938 and destroyer depot ship Cochrane 1938-1946

Smoking room. Francis Edgar Dodd (29 November 1874 Holyhead wales-7 March 1949 Blackheath, London, England) landscape artist, printmaker and portrait painter

Built by Sir Raylton Dixon and Company, Middlesbrough with yard number 496 for account of Booth Steam Ship Co. in 1903, converted into an armed merchant cruiser (M87) in 1914-1915, converted into a submarine depot ship in 1917, laid up in 1919, converted into destroyer depot ship Cochrane in 1938 and broken up in 1946. Armament as AMC 8-11.9cm/4.7 inch guns and 2-6pd guns,as depot ship 2-12pd anti aicraft guns. Crew numbered in 1917 238 men.