[Royal Navy ephemera.] Printed commemorative newspaper: ‘Siver Jubilee Naval Review 1935’. Filled with articles, advertisements and illustrations. Contributions by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, Frank C. Bowen and Evelyn H. Healey.

A scarce item: no copies on WorldCat or JISC, nor at the Caird Library, National Martime Museum (though the latter does have a signed print of one of the illustrations). Twenty-six broadsheet pages, on news stock paper, in shiny paper covers printed in red, blue and brown. Filled with illustrations and topical advertisements for everything from corsetry to bicycles, from a full-page one on the inside front cover for ‘Brickwoods Jubilee Brew / 4d. per Small Bottle in Public Bars’, to one on the back cover reading ‘On Review / United Ales & Stout Are Supreme’. First article is ‘Britain’s Dependence On Sea Power / A Review Foreword / By / Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, Bart., / G.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O., LL.D., M.P. for Portsmouth North, and a former Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.’ Among many other articles are ‘Warship Design in our Sailor King’s Reign / Dreadnought Types - Good Looking and Ungainly Ships - Greater Armament Efficiency’ by Frank C. Bowen, and the poem ‘Semper Fidelis’ by Evelyn H. Healey. Central ‘Admiralty Plan of Ships at Spithead’.