HMS Thunderer Wardroom Badge – 1912

Original Unofficial Royal Navy wardroom badge

HMS Thunderer was an Orion Class Dreadnought Battleship

Built Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company , Poplar London

Unofficial , as this badge pre dates the Admiralty standardisation of Royal Navy badges in 1919

HMS Thunderer spent the bulk of her career assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets

She participated in the Battle of Jutland and the inconclusive Action of 19th August. During WW1 , HMS Thunderer routinely patrolled and joined training in the North Sea

In 1921 she was converted into a training ship for naval cadets until she was sold for scrap in 1926. Whilst being towed to the scrapyard HMS Thunderer ran aground, she was re floated and then broken up.

Dimensions :

30 cm overall

2.6 kg weight

We have been the Worlds largest dealers in these original Royal Navy artefacts for over twenty years now, the bulk of our stock coming directly from invitation by the Royal Navy and the Royal Navy Museum in Portsmouth Dockyard

In a market full of souvenirs & fakes, we are are proud to present to you these, the ‘Real McCoy,’ in which to confidently invest, and wholeheartedly enjoy

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