~ Bronze WW1 Battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth Quarter Deck Plate ~
The plaque consists of a bronze Tudor rose mounted onto a green velvet backed Bakelite plaque. Include is a photocopy showing it in place on the forward (‘A’) turret.
Quarter deck plates are extremely rare as most ships did not have them and if they did there was only one.
~ HMS Queen Elizabeth ~
HMS Queen Elizabeth was the lead ship of her class of five dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s, and was often used as a flagship. She served in the First World War as part of the Grand Fleet, and participated in the the Dardanelles campaign. In the Second World War she served in the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific as well as North Sea patrols.
Her service during the war generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea. She and the other super-dreadnought battleships were the first of their type to be powered by oil instead of coal. Queen Elizabeth later served in several theatres during the Second World War, and was scrapped in 1948.
~ Condition ~
Please refer to the images. The bronze is in excellent order, the Bakelite has a scarfed in repair.
~ Dimensions ~
The rose is 25 cm (9.75 inches) in diameter. The Bakelite backing is 30 cm (12 inches) in diameter. It weighs 5.5 Kg.
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