Dramatic previously unseen photos of the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious have come to light.

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Pictured: A picture captioned "Billy Baffin Boys" shows crew pushing a Blackburn B-5 Baffin biplane on an airfield. <br />
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Dramatic previously unseen photos of the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious including numerous crashes have come to light 86 years on.<br />
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Biplanes can be seen plummeting into the sea and others upturned as the pilots missed their small landing target.<br />
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The images were taken in 1935 and 1936 as Glorious roamed the Mediterranean Sea in the years preceding World War Two.<br />
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Other photos show her coming to the aid of an Italian passenger liner ablaze, and a tornado ripping through a Maltese airbase.<br />
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The pair of photo albums, which were collated by an unknown British seaman, are being sold with auctioneers Henry Aldridge & Son, of Devizes, Wilts.