Vintage Ships Crest - HMS SEALION SUBMARINE

ORIGINAL METAL CREST - HMS SEALION

This is a HAND PAINTED METAL SHIPS CREST for HMS SEALION..

The Crest is Hand Painted and is approx 50+ years old.

HMS Sealion was a
Royal Navy S-class submarine which was launched 16 March 1934 and
fought in the Second World War.

She had an eventful career after the outbreak of
war. Under the command of LCdr (later Rear Admiral) Ben Bryant, she
attacked U-21 off the Dogger
Bank in November 1939, but failed to sink her. Her first success
was the German merchant August Leonhard, sunk in April
1940 off the Danish island of Anholt. She later attacked the German
merchant Moltkefels, but failed to hit her. She fired upon
the beached Palime, and unsuccessfully attacked U-62 in July 1940.
She finished her patrol by sinking the Norwegian merchant
Toran and attacking but failing to sink the German
merchant Cläre Hugo Stinnes in August.

On 5 February 1941 she shelled and sank the
Norwegian Hurtigruten cargo-passenger
ship Ryfylke. In May
of that year Sealion unsuccessfully attacked U-74. In July she
attacked French shipping, sinking the French fishing vessels
Gustav Eugene and Gustav Jeanne, and on
succeeding days, Christus Regnat and St Pierre
d'Alcantara.

She was one of a number of submarines ordered to
track the German
battleship Bismarck before her eventual sinking.

Towards the end of 1941 she sank the Norwegian
tanker Vesco and the Norwegian merchant Island.
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She was scuttled as an ASDIC target off the Isle of Arran on 13 March 1945.

Measures 9"high BY 7" wide.

Condition is Very Good.

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