Description: HMS HOWE HMS Howe was the last of the five Royal Navy King George V class battleships, laid down on 1 June 1937 and launched 9 April 1940. She was originally to have been named HMS Beatty after Admiral David Beatty of Jutland fame, but this was changed to Howe in February 1940 at the instigation of Winston Churchill Howe was completed on 29 August 1942 after her building time was extended, as needed war supplies were diverted to work of a higher priority such as the construction and repair of both merchant ships and escort ships. Like her sister-ship Anson, Howe would spend most of her career in the Arctic providing cover for Russian convoys.In 1943 Howe took part in Operation Husky, the invasion of French North Africa. Along with HMS King George V, Howe escorted two surrendered Italian battleships to Alexandria. Howe was also sent to the Pacific and attached to Task Force 113, where she provided naval bombardments for the Allied landings at Okinawa on 1 April 1945.Following the end of the war, Howe spent four years as flagship of the Training Squadron at Portland, before she was placed in reserve in 1950. The battleship was marked for disposal in 1957, sold for scrap in 1958, and completely broken up by 1961. 6 x 4 ins PHOTO HIGH QUALITY, GLOSS, PRINTING PAPER PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS A QUALITY MODERN COPY IN PRISTINE CONDITION
Price: 1.99 GBP
Location: WATERLOOVILLE, Hampshire
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