ORIGINAL WW2 RARE G-CLASS DESTROYER ROYAL NAVY PLAQUE
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Double your traffic. ( PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE IMAGES OF ITEM FOR SALE) ORIGINAL WW2 RARE G-CLASS DESTROYER ROYAL NAVY PLAQUE FROM HMS GRIFFIN , 7 INCHES TALL MADE OF ALLOY , 100% ORIGINAL .HISTORY; HMS Griffin (H31) was a G-class destroyer, built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During World War II, the ship participated in the Norwegian Campaign of April–May 1940 and the Battle of Dakar in September before being transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in November. The ship generally escorted the larger ships of the Mediterranean Fleet as they protected convoys against attacks from the Italian Fleet. Griffin participated in the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941 and the evacuations of Greece and Crete in April–May 1941. In June the ship participated in the Syria-Lebanon Campaign and was escorting convoys and the larger ships of the Mediterranean Fleet until she was transferred to the Eastern Fleet in March 1942.Griffin did not see any action during the Japanese Indian Ocean raid in April, but was escorting convoys for most of her time in the Indian Ocean. In June, the ship returned to the Mediterranean to escort another convoy to Malta in Operation Vigorous. Beginning in November 1942, she was converted to an escort destroyer in the United Kingdom and was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on 1 March 1943. The ship,
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