Lot 132
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A LIFE-RING FROM THE MANX PACKET TYNWALD IV
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A LIFE-RING FROM THE MANX PACKET TYNWALD IV

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A LIFE-RING FROM THE MANX PACKET TYNWALD IV
in canvas, leather, cork and rope, finished in red and white quadrants with banner titles -- 29½in. (75cm.) diameter; sold with historical data.
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Requisitioned from her regular passenger service in 1940 and re-classed H.M.S. Tynwald, she saved nearly 9,000 troops during Operation Dynamo at Dunkirk. She was sunk during Operation Torch, 12th November, 1942 [North African Landings] by the Italian submarine Argo.

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