A very nice example of a WW-II era

Royal Naval Aircraft Carrier

'HMS Ocean (R68)

Officer's Wardroom Napkin Ring


A Colossus Class Light Fleet Carrier

laid down in 1942 and launched in July 1944

HMS Ocean

was finally commissioned on August 8th 1945

so just missing action in World War Two.


However with her complement of

Supermarine Seafires from

816 & 805 Naval Air Squadrons

she saw action in the Korean War

and then with her later squadrons of

Hawker Sea Furies

was involved in the Suez Crisis.


1958 saw her finally retired from front-line duties

and transferred to 

The Royal Naval Reserve

and finally scrapped at Faslane in 1962.


In good condition, this smashing

machine-turned

Officer's Wardroom Napkin Ring

bears the enamelled crest of 

HMS Ocean


A cracking souvenir from another of the Royal Navy's

famous Aircraft Carrier Fleet..


(Photo courtesy of the WW-II Tomahawk Films' Archive)


 Thanks for looking..!

We are pleased to have acquired a private

Royal Naval Collection that includes a number of items of historical antecedence from the

Royal Navy's most important capital ships of World War One & World War Two

..some that featured at the Great War's 'Battle of Jutland' and

against the Kriegsmarine in WW-II in

'The Battle of the Denmark Straits' and 'The Hunting of Graff Spee & Bismarck'

Included are items from illustriously-named battleships & heavy cruisers such as

HMS Dorsetshire, Suffolk, Malaya, Newcastle, Glorious, Rodney,

Grand Duke, Royal Sovereign, Hood, Vanguard, Benbow etc.

Once fully researched & documented,

we will slowly start to list them for sale here in our our eBay shop and

also via our display cases down at

The Lyndhurst Antiques Centre in The New Forest..