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Description: | SILVER
whole: MODEL
obverse design : HMS Lion and HMS Arethusa, each depicted within a small oval panel to the centre left and right of piece respectively. The
ovals overlie portions of cable looped in a figure of eight and knotted at the centre. Within the upper loop is the SMS Mainz and within
the lower the SMS Blücher, both ships sinking. To the left and right edges of the piece a naval ensign flying from a vertical flagstaff
with, at their bases, scrolls marked respectively "BEATTY" and "TYRWHITT"
obverse text : "LION" (left oval panel) & "ARETHUSA" (right oval panel) & "28 AUG 1914" & "'MAINZ' SINKING" (upper loop of cable) & "24 JAN
1915" & "'BLÜCHER' SINKING" (lower loop of cable)
reverse text : "VICE ADMIRAL SIR DAVID BEATTY" (three lines) & "1914 HELIGOLAND BIGHT 28 AUGUST" & "1915 DOGGER BANK 24 JANUARY" (two
parallel columns of three lines) & "H.M.SHIPS ENGAGED BATTLE CRUISERS" (two lines) & "LION [FLAG] QUEEN MARY PRINCESS ROYAL NEW ZEALAND
INVINCIBLE [R.FLAG]" & "LION [FLAG] TIGER PRINCESS ROYAL NEW ZEALAND [R.FLAG] INDOMITABLE" (two parallel columns of five lines) & "LIGHT
CRUISERS" (one line) & "SOUTHAMPTON, FALMOUTH BIRMINGHAM, LIVERPOOL NOTTINGHAM, ARETHUSA LOWESTOFT, FEARLESS" & "SOUTHAMPTON, ARETHUSA
BIRMINGHAM, AURORA NOTTINGHAM, UNDAUNTED LOWESTOFT" (two parallel columns of four lines) & "DESTROYERS" (one line) & "33" & "35" (sharing
same line but spaced below appropriate columns) & "ENEMY SHIPS DESTROYED" (one line) & "LIGHT CRUISERS MAINZ, KÖLN, ARIADNE DESTROYER
V.187" & "BATTLE CRUISER BLÜCHER" (two parallel columns of five and two lines respectively) | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | North Sea & Dogger Bank Beatty HMS ARETHUSA commemorative DE.N & SMS Blücher North Sea & Heligoland Bight Battle of & 28/8/1914 Reginald Yorke DE.N & SMS Mainz David Richard Royal Navy Battle of & 24/1/1915 HMS Lion First World War Tyrwhitt | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Spink and Son | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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