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HomeNautical and MaritimeBritish Royal Navy Collectable Bronze WW2 County Class Heavy Cruiser HMS Devonshire (1929) Main Battery Tompion

Bronze WW2 County Class Heavy Cruiser HMS Devonshire (1929) Main Battery Tompion

£950.00

SKU: JA_9287121900* (ref. no.)

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SKU: JA_9287121900* Category: British Royal Navy Collectable Tags: 1929, bronze, County Class, Heavy Cruiser, HMS Devonshire, Main Battery, tompion, ww2
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~ Bronze WW2 County Class Heavy Cruiser HMS Devonshire (1929) Main Battery Tompion ~

The tompion, a gun muzzle cover, has a central lion, rope border and a hollow back with two mounting slides.

~ HMS Devonshire (1929) ~

HMS Devonshire, pennant number 39, was a County-class heavy cruiser of the London sub-class built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. The ship spent most of her pre-World War II career assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet aside from a brief tour with the China Station. She spent the first two months of the Second World War in the Mediterranean until she was transferred to the Home Fleet and became flagship of a cruiser squadron. Devonshire took part in the Norwegian Campaign in mid 1940 and evacuated much of the Norwegian Government in June. Several months later, she participated in the Battle of Dakar, a failed attempt to seize the Vichy French colony of Senegal in September. The ship remained in the South Atlantic afterwards and supported Free French efforts to take control of French Equatorial Africa in addition to searching for German commerce raiders.

Devonshire returned home in early 1941 and briefly rejoined the Home Fleet, during which time she escorted several aircraft carriers as they attacked German forces in Norway and Finland and covered the first convoy to the Soviet Union. Shortly afterwards, the ship was sent to the South Atlantic where she sank the Q-ship Atlantis. Devonshire was then assigned to the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean and supported the Allied invasion of Madagascar in mid-1942. She then spent the next year escorting convoys before returning home to begin a lengthy refit. After it was completed in early 1944, the ship escorted various aircraft carriers for the rest of the war as they attacked targets in Norway.

After the German surrender in May 1945, she sailed to Norway and escorted two surrendered German cruisers from Denmark to the UK. Devonshire then began ferrying British troops home from Australia for the rest of the year. In 1947, the ship was converted into a training ship for naval cadets and served until she was sold for scrap in 1954.

~ Condition ~

Please refer to the images. The bronze is in excellent order.

~ Dimensions ~

The tompion is 21 cm (8.25 inches) in diameter . It weighs 2.8 Kg.

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