[M] A TREAD PLATE FOR THE H.M. SUBMARINE 'TRENCHANT' 1944

A TREAD PLATE FOR H.M. SUBMARINE TRENCHANT 1944

heavily cast in brass with recessed raised lettering and grips within brass frame with securing points -- 9½ x 17in. (24 x 43cm.)

Built at Chatham and commissioned in February 1944, Trenchant spent most of her wartime career in the Far East where she sank a range of vessels using torpedoes, gunfire and even ramming. In September she sank U-859, taking eleven crew aboard as Prisoners-of-War and the next month Chariots carried by her sank a Japanese Army cargo ship in Phuket Harbour, Siam. Her most significant kill however was on the 8th June 1945 when five of eight torpedoes fired at 4000 yards found their mark and sent the Japanese cruise Ashigara to the bottom with only 400 of the 1600 troops she was carrying surviving together with 850 crew, which earned Trenchant's commander, Arthur Hezlet, a second DSO. Trenchant was broken up in 1963.

Condition Report

signs of use and wear overall, in good structural condition

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