A NAME BOARD FROM H.M.S. NEWCASTLE (1937)

the ¾in. deep cast brass lettering with red-painted sides secured to wooden display board – 15 x 97in. (38 x 246.5cm.)

Provenance: Ex-Ferrers-Walker Collection; Formerly on loan to the Royal Navy Museum, Portsmouth

H.M.S. Newcastle, 9,100 tons and also a heavy cruiser was built by Vickers Armstrong on the Tyne and completed in 1937. Joining the 2nd Cruiser Squadron of the Home Fleet, on the 23rd November 1939 she picked up survivors from the ill-matched H.M.S. Rawalpindi, an ex-P&O liner turned armed merchant cruiser, which had taken on the two battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau with fatal consequences (see lot 100); Serving in the South Atlantic in 1941 she was sent to join the Eastern Fleet in 1942 but badly damaged in a torpedo attack that June. Returning to duty in the Far East in March 1943, she remained there until the War ended and was scrapped in 1959.

This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road