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DESCRIPTION -- From HMS Splendid this is a souvenir round wooden plaque with name in centre and is 5½" (14cm) wide dating from the 1930's and is in a great condition (click on the picture to see detail in the centre).
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CONDITION -- Excellent
HISTORY -- HMS Splendid was a Royal Navy nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Swiftsure class. From her launch in 1979 she took part in many conflicts involving British forces around the globe and was decommissioned in 2004.
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DESCRIPTION -- From the Royal Naval vessel HMS Devonshire this is a round copper dish and the size is 3½" (9cm). It is an early produced item and shows in the centre to ships crest and is in a good condition.
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CONDITION -- Good
HISTORY -- HMS Devonshire, pennant number 39, was a County-class heavy cruiser of the London sub-class built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920's. The ship spent most of her pre-World War II career assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet aside from a brief tour with the China Station. She spent a few months after the start of the Second World War in September 1939 in the Mediterranean until she was transferred to the Home Fleet and became flagship of a cruiser squadron.
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DESCRIPTION -- A postcard sized photograph of the Royal Naval ship HMS Reclaim which is in an excellent condition.
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CONDITION -- Excellent
HISTORY -- HMS Reclaim is the first of two multi-role hydro-graphic survey ships commissioned by the Royal Navy. With her sister ship, HMS Enterprise, they form the Echo class of survey vessels. She was built by Appledore Shipbuilders in Devon in 2002[3] and is the ninth Royal Navy vessel to carry the name.
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DESCRIPTION -- Postcard of the Royal Naval ship HMS Echo which is in an excellent condition.
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CONDITION -- Excellent
HISTORY -- The Echo-class was a class of inshore survey vessel built for the British Royal Navy in 1958'1959. The class was designed to operate in close waters such as harbour approaches, shipping lanes, rivers and estuaries. Together, the ships of this class formed the Royal Navy's Inshore Survey Squadron.
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DESCRIPTION -- Moulded model of HMS Ark Royal launched 1950 and produced on a solid wooden plaque. It comes with an original cap tally and full details of the vessel and is 12" (30cm) x 13.75" (35cm) in size and all in a good condition.
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CONDITION -- Good
HISTORY -- The ship was originally designated to be called 'Irresistible', but was renamed 'Ark Royal' prior to launch. The immediately previous Ark Royal, also an aircraft carrier, was torpedoed off Gibraltar on 14 November 1941 with the loss of one member of the ship's company. She was launched in 1950, and her completion took five more years. In this time, she underwent redesign and, when completed, she was markedly different from her sister ship.
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DESCRIPTION -- Postcard sized photograph of the Royal Naval ship HMS Phoebe which is in an excellent condition.
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CONDITION -- Excellent
HISTORY -- HMS Phoebe (F42) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). She was, like the rest of her class, named after a figure of mythology. Built by Alexander Stephen and Sons on the River Clyde, she was launched on 19 December 1964 and commissioned on 15 May 1966.
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DESCRIPTION -- Postcard sized photograph of the Royal Naval ship HMS Birmingham which is in an excellent condition.
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CONDITION -- Excellent
HISTORY -- HMS Birmingham was a Type 42 destroyer laid down by Cammell Laird and Company, Limited, at Birkenhead on 28 March 1972, launched on 30 July 1973 by Lady Empson, wife of Sir Derek Empson and commissioned on 3 December 1976. She was named for the city of Birmingham, England.
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DESCRIPTION -- Postcard sized photograph of the Royal Naval ship HMS Soberton which is in an excellent condition.
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CONDITION -- Excellent
HISTORY -- HMS Soberton Ton class was a coastal minesweeper built in the 1950's for the Royal Navy, but also used by other navies such as the South African Navy and the Royal Australian Navy. The use of this type of vessel was intended to meet the threat of seabed mines laid in shallow coastal waters, rivers, ports and harbours, a task for which the existing ocean-going minesweepers of the Algerine-class were not suited.
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DESCRIPTION -- Postcard sized photograph of the Royal Naval ship HMS Fearless which is in an excellent condition.
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CONDITION -- Excellent
HISTORY -- HMS Fearless (L10) was a Royal Navy ship that served from 1965 until 2002. One of two Fearless class amphibious assault ships, she was based in HMNB Portsmouth and saw service around the world over her 37-year life. She was the last steam powered surface ship in the Royal Navy.
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DESCRIPTION -- A postcard sized photograph of the Royal Naval ship HMS Aurora which is in an excellent condition.
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CONDITION -- Excellent
HISTORY -- HMS Aurora (F10) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). Like other ships of the class, Aurora was named after a figure of mythology, Aurora being the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Eos.
NOTES -- This photograph is taken from our collection of over 2000 shipping photographs and is protected in a plastic wallet. If there is a particular photograph of a vessel you are looking for please let Travellers in Time know at sales@travellersintime.net.
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