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)
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'