"Funeral at Holyhead"

PR/706/12

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Silver gelatin print by Stephen Feather, titled "Funeral at Holyhead". Image shows funeral service at Maeshyfryd Cemetery, Holyhead, for victims of the H.M.S. Thetis, Admiralty, disaster in September 1939. The submarine sank during sea trials in Liverpool Bay in June of that year, resulting in the loss of 99 lives. Part of album titled "The Salvaging of the 'Thetis': 12 Photographs of a Great Feat"