This Liverpool Flake tobacco brand produced by Ogdens and has Illustrated HMS Campania whch has had a bit of a chequered life. Built by Fairfield Ship Building Company, Scotland on behalf of Cunard Line as a pasenger ship for the Liverpool to New York srevice and launched in September 1892. In 1914, held the Blue Ribbon Award for speed. Sold for scrap in 1914 and purchased back by Royal Navy for £32.500 and converted at Cammel Laird into an aircraft carrier. in 1915. Could fit 4 small seaplanes under flight-deck and another 7 large seaplanes amidships. In 1918, she was badly damaged whilst moored in Firth of Forth and eventually sank as a result. The paper label is a bit rough on outside.
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