214227 Lt. Robert Love Alexander DSO, DSC.Royal Navy HMS Pandora I have a photo graph of the officers and men (total: 53) of the H.M.S. Pandora taken at the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.A. on November 21, 1941. I suspect that this may be the last photograph of the officers and crew taken prior to it's sinking. The handwriting on the back of the photograph reads: "And these are the pirates they lead - wish them more success a(n)d good hunting." There is another photograph of the officers to which i believe this notation refers. I will try to find the other if you have any interest. The photograph was given (and signed) to my father and mother at the time the Pandora was moored there. My father, then a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps at the time and in charge of the Marine detachment at Portsmouth, N.H., which was also a naval prison. This information was related to me by my Mother, who recalled that the officers and crew were subsequently lost at sea.
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