File:Map of the cruises of the Bermuda-based HMS York on the America & West Indies Station, 1936-1939.jpg

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English: Map of the cruises of the Royal Navy heavy cruiser HMS York while on the America & West Indies Station, 1936-1939, including its initial journey to its base at the Royal Naval Dockyard on Ireland Island in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda, in the North Atlantic, cruises from Bermuda to various Atlantic (including the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico) and Pacific ports in countries and territories of North America, Central America, South America and the West Indies, and her final departure from Bermuda, and the station, to return to England to pay off at the end of the commission.
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Source "H.M.S. York 1936-1939", full title "In The Western Hemisphere with "H.M.S. York" 1936-1939"(account of HMS York while on the America and West Indies Station).
Author Possible signature: GHR. Otherwise, the author of the text is anonymous (an officer of HMS York), as are the illustrators. The only officer of these initials listed on the books of HMS York in the Navy List (March, 1939; page 305) is Commissioned Gunner G. H. Read.

This map was printed on pages 264 and 265 of "H.M.S. York 1936-1939", full title "In The Western Hemisphere with "H.M.S. York" 1936-1939" (an account of HMS York while on the America and West Indies Station), produced by HMS York (Royal Navy) in 1939, on the conclusion of the commission, and printed by Flood and Son, Lted, The Borrough Press, Lowestoft. The map is signed GHR, 1939. The foreword is by Admiral (then Vice-Admiral, and Commander in Chief on the America and West Indies Station) Sir Sidney Julius Meyrick, KCB, the forword is by Captain H. E. Morse, DSO, and the introduction is signed, like the map, GHR. Otherwise, the author, a Royal Naval officer of HMS York, of the text is anonymous, as are the illustrators. The only officer listed on the books of HMS York in the Navy List (March, 1939; page 305) is Commissioned Gunner G. H. Read.

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Map of the cruises of the Bermuda-based HMS York while on the America & West Indies Station, 1936-1939.

1 May 1939

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