Collection: Photographs relating to submarines compiled by Jack Casement

Description

The collection comprises 46 monochrome photographic prints depicting submarines and salvage vessel taken or compiled in about 1921 by Capt Jack Casement R N (1880-1944). Many of the images show Cyklop, a German double-hulled submarine salvage and service vessel appropriated by the Royal Navy and used by them for the salvage and scrapping of captured German U-Boat submarines. Cyklop was scrapped in 1922. Other photographs show German submarines wrecked on the coast near Falmouth, Cornwall.

The collection also contains a single cutting from 'The Bystander' dated 10 November 1920: a cartoon showing a submarine slung from a salvage vessel.

A handlist is available.

Archival History

The collection was acquired by The English Heritage Archive in 2014.

Jack Casement joined the Royal Navy at the age of 14 and trained at HMS Britannia and the Royal Navy College, Greenwich. He reached the rank of Commander in 1914 and served throughout the First World War. He became Captain in 1918 and was awarded the DSO in 1919 for the part he played in the sinking of the German auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse in 1914. After the war he was stationed at the Submarine Research Station, Falmouth and retired from the Royal Navy in 1922. The photographs probably came into Jack Casement's possession while he was serving at Falmouth.

Content

This Collection contains the following materials:

Photograph (Print): 46

Extract/Cutting: 1

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive