HMS Essex was a Monmouth-class armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built at Pembroke Dock and launched on 29 August 1901. She served in the First World War with most of her sisters, and survived to be sold for scrap on 8 November 1921. Essex was eventually broken up in Germany.
In the view of one man who served aboard Essex around 1911, she was an unhappy and unpleasant ship and well known as a hot bed of un-natural practices, as told in The Royal Navy, an Illustrated Social History 1870-1982. Men going ashore at Portsmouth wearing an HMS Essex cap would be mocked by local harlots as being unlikely to want their services.
16-6-17 - Embarked Kantara Egypt and Carried Australian troops (4th Light Horse AIF) back to Australa.
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“The unknown always seems unbelievable, Lucas.”
—Harry Essex (b. 1910)