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Title: Help Required. What Ship is this from ?????
Post by: Harry Pickles on June 10, 2011, 05:31:19 pm

Someone has given me the pictured plaque.  I am told it is from a Royal Navy Vessel and is around 40 years old.  It measures around 6" x 5" and is of cast brass weighing 1.5kgs.  It has the word 'Veteran' on the rear amd at one time has had three brass fixing bolts.
Can any of you grey-ship chappies give me any clue as to the identity of the ship it was from?
Many Thanks. Harry.
(http://s4.postimage.org/29z30sgpw/P1030544.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/29z30sgpw/)

Title: Re: Help Required. What Ship is this from ?????
Post by: DavieTait on June 10, 2011, 05:42:47 pm

Possibly not a ships plaque , going by the type of head it could be from a shore establishment , HMS Raleigh maybe ??

Title: Re: Help Required. What Ship is this from ?????
Post by: pugwash on June 10, 2011, 06:19:28 pm

If I remember correctly HMS Raleigh has a stag in the centre of its crest.

Geoff

Title: Re: Help Required. What Ship is this from ?????
Post by: Roadrunner on June 10, 2011, 06:32:23 pm

It does, its not HMS Raleigh.

Title: Re: Help Required. What Ship is this from ?????
Post by: Harry Pickles on June 10, 2011, 06:54:27 pm

Thanks for trying all you chaps.  Looking forwards to next suggestion.  Cheers. H.

Title: Re: Help Required. What Ship is this from ?????
Post by: Circlip on June 10, 2011, 07:01:41 pm

Drake?

  Regards  Ian.

Title: Re: Help Required. What Ship is this from ?????
Post by: mikearace on June 10, 2011, 07:06:14 pm

No Drake is a red griffon/dragon.  Assuming it is a crest, and most have the name above even air squadrons, the only thing that srpings to mind are HMT Conquistador and HMS Spaniard.

Title: Re: Help Required. What Ship is this from ?????
Post by: pugwash on June 10, 2011, 07:07:03 pm

Harry I have just been through the admiralty ships badges website all 1889 of them
strangely enouth it was HMS Veteran a V class destroyer launched 1919 and served into WWII

Geoff

http://www.ships-badges.co.uk/New%20Digi%20Gallery/My%20Gallery%201/veteran.html

Title: Re: Help Required. What Ship is this from ?????
Post by: mikearace on June 10, 2011, 07:15:37 pm

well sods law it would be at tha back end of the alphabet!!!

Title: Re: Help Required. What Ship is this from ?????
Post by: Jonty on June 10, 2011, 07:55:00 pm

  You must have finished just before me, Pugwash - but I missed it! The shape indicated that it was a destroyer, that was before they standardised on a round design in 1940.

Title: Re: Help Required. What Ship is this from ?????
Post by: Harry Pickles on June 11, 2011, 08:45:32 pm

Thanks Pugwash. I have looked at the website and the figure on the plaque is the same but facing the wrong way and theres no crown on the top of mine.   Could this be from one of the earlier HMS Veterans and where do I find the info?
Many Thanks once again - You are a star !   Cheers. H.

Title: Re: Help Required. What Ship is this from ?????
Post by: farrow on June 12, 2011, 06:15:45 pm

I have sen several plaques like yours and they all have the same shape etc, they where all pre war and early war destroyers. I saw them at the Sea Cadets office at the Ex HMS Dolhin Gosport and theirs are the original moulds.

Title: Re: Help Required. What Ship is this from ?????
Post by: farrow on June 21, 2011, 10:08:41 pm

I forgot to say that plaques from old small ships like yours are rarer than those from the likes of big battle wagons etc, so are more valuable to collectors.

Title: Re: Help Required. What Ship is this from ?????
Post by: Circlip on June 21, 2011, 10:45:37 pm

But why is the  figure facing the wrong way and the background colour different to the logged crest? Eldest makes miniatures of the navel crests and his reference book shows the figure facing left on a green ground as the link.

   Regards  Ian.