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A smoking stand carved from the timber of H.M.S. Warspite, H...

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A smoking stand carved from the timber of H.M.S. Warspite, H-19cm x 11.
HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed during the First World War in 1915, she was assigned to the Grand Fleet and participated in the Battle of Jutland. During the Second World War, Warspite was involved in the Norwegian Campaign in early 1940 and was transferred to the Mediterranean later that year. The ship bombarded German positions during the Normandy landings and on Walcheren Island in 1944. These actions earned her the most battle honours ever awarded to an individual ship in the Royal Navy. For this and other reasons, Warspite gained the nickname the "Grand Old Lady" after a comment made by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham in 1943 while she was his flagship. She was scrapped in 1947 and eventually broken up on Marazion beach. According to the contractors, it remains the largest salvage operation ever carried out in British waters.

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