Code: 12515
An impressive painted metal ships plaque for the submarine HMS Rorqual mounted on an oak backing. Looks to have a good deal of age, likely produced for, or given to, one of the ships officers. Good overall condition, with some light wear.
Measuring 9.75 inches tall, and 7.75 inches wide, weighing 1.4KG.
HMS Rorqual (N74) was a British mine-laying submarine, one of the six ships of the Grampus class built by Vickers Armstrong, and launched 27 July 1936. She served in the Second World War in the Mediterranean and in the Far East. She was the only Grampus-class submarine to survive the war, and she is considered the most successful minelaying submarine of World War II, sinking 57,704 GRT of enemy shipping, 35,951 via her mine laying capability.
