£800 - £1,200
A NAMEPLATE FROM THE FLOTILLA LEADER H.M. DESTROYER MONTROSE, 1919
cast in brass with polished lettering in a red field, drilled with securing points -- 9 x 26in. (23 x 66cm.)
Built by Hawthorn Leslie as part of the Emergency War Programme and launched (and completed) in 1918, Montrose took part in Operation Dynamo where she evacuated 925 troops from the Dunkirk beaches before she collided in fog outbound near Dover and was towed back stem first for repair, That summer she was back in the Channel for the first stages of the Battle of Britain during which she shot down two bombers but near-misses again consigned her to the yards for urgent repairs. By 1942 she was providing distant cover for Arctic Convoys including PQ18 and also, in company with HMS Garth, fought a flotilla of E-boats laying a minefield off Lowestoft with one being sunk; she supported convoys to the Normandy Landings from 6th June for which she won her final battle honour, damaged again she was placed in reserve and broken up in 1946.
old wear commencement with age
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