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HMS Wolfe
Item
1 plaque : metal, overpaint ; 46 x 35 x 3.5 cm
Ship's badge of HMS Wolfe. Topped with a naval crown, the plaque features a red wolf rampant against a white field.
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HMS Wolfe was an armed merchant cruiser of the Royal Navy. Previously a passenger ship built by John Brown Shipbuilding and launched in 1920, it was requisitioned in 1939 and converted and renamed HMS Wolfe in 1940.