Lot Archive

Lot

№ 308

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£80

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (LX. 20012 J. A. Mockford, Std., H.M.S. Kingston) good very fine £60-80

The destroyer H.M.S. Kingston won seven Battle Honours in her somewhat brief operational career, for she was bombed and sunk while in dock at Malta in April 1942. She had earlier participated in the evacuation of Greece and Crete, when she was damaged by enemy aircraft, and in the Second Battle of Sirte, when she was hit by a shell when delivering a torpedo attack on the Littorio.