06-13-2025, 07:59 AM
Here is my entry, can you spot me?
As an aside this mirror was Admiral Beatty's, in his cabin on board His Majesty's Ship Lion. The brass plaque on it is dated 1914-1918 and noted with Jutland, Heligoland and Dogger, areas in which this ship did battle. My mother would have picked it up a a "Car Boot Sale" for £5 and plastered this blue paint on it and hung it up in her garage for decades, not minding its history or thinking of its near destruction lying in the bottom of an Ocean.
A battlecruiser, completed in 1912 with a main armament of eight 13.5in guns, the Lion was Admiral Beatty's flagship at the Battles of the Heligoland Bight, Dogger Bank and Jutland. At Jutland she was hit by several 12in shells from the Lutzow. One struck 'Q' turret amidships only prompt flooding of the magazine saved the ship from a potentially fatal fire.
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As an aside this mirror was Admiral Beatty's, in his cabin on board His Majesty's Ship Lion. The brass plaque on it is dated 1914-1918 and noted with Jutland, Heligoland and Dogger, areas in which this ship did battle. My mother would have picked it up a a "Car Boot Sale" for £5 and plastered this blue paint on it and hung it up in her garage for decades, not minding its history or thinking of its near destruction lying in the bottom of an Ocean.
A battlecruiser, completed in 1912 with a main armament of eight 13.5in guns, the Lion was Admiral Beatty's flagship at the Battles of the Heligoland Bight, Dogger Bank and Jutland. At Jutland she was hit by several 12in shells from the Lutzow. One struck 'Q' turret amidships only prompt flooding of the magazine saved the ship from a potentially fatal fire.
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