£1,300
THE OFFICIAL PATTERN SCREEN BADGE FROM H.M.S. FURY, 1934
cast in brass, with ship's name and rope border, mounted on shaped wooden shield display board -- 17½ x 12in. (44.5 x 30.5cm.)
Built by Whites of Cowes, one of Fury's earliest assignments was to take the Duke of Windsor to exile in France the day after his abdication broadcast. Thereafter she was very active. firstly enforcing the arms blockade on Spain imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the Civil War (1936-39). She played a minor role in the Norwegian Campaign of 1940 and in mid-1940 Fury was sent to Gibraltar from which she was deployed as part of Force H (the RN squadron created to fill the vacuum left by Vichy Frances's surrender of the Medietteranian to Germany) where she participated in the attack on Mers-el-Kébir and the Battle of Dakar. The ship escorted numerous convoys to Malta in 1940–41 and Arctic convoys during 1942. Fury was briefly transferred to the Mediterranean in August 1942 to participate in Operation Pedestal which saved Malta from capitulation by delivering the tanker Ohio. At the Normandy Landings she bombarded Juno Beach but on the 21st of June hit a mine which immobilized her and, in the stiff sea conditions that followed, beached as a constructive loss by the Mulberry Harbour.
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