£400 - £600
SHIP'S BELL FOR H.M.S. BOXER, CIRCA 1943
cast in brass, with red-filled lettering inscribed H.M.S. BOXER, complete with painted black interior and red-painted iron clapper -- 10½ x 9in. (27 x 23cm.); together with a photograph of H.M.S. Boxer
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Completed by Harland & Wolf in 1943 as a tank landing ship, Boxer was capable of carrying 13 Churchill tanks, 27 other vehicles and 193 men - including the comedian Spike Milligan when he served with the Royal Artillery. She was refitted as a fighter direction ship for the Normandy Landings in 1944. Post-war she became a radar training ship, took part in the Coronation Review and was scrapped in 1958.
Front of the bell with much pitting from presumed hammer strikes.
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