Scanned from a photo postcard circa 1910.
HMS Vulcan, launched in 1889 as a torpedo boat depot ship
In 1908 she was converted to a submarine depot ship and was based at Dundee, Scotland where this photo was taken
In 1931 she was renamed Defiance III and converted to a training hulk, she was scrapped in 1955.
Robert Falcon Scott the Antarctic explorer served as a midshipman on board the Vulcan