Four plates for H.M. destroyers 'Blean', 'Legion', 'Lightening' and 'Packenham', each approximately -- 5 x 9in. (12.7 x 22.9cm.) (4)

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Four plates for H.M. destroyers 'Blean', 'Legion', 'Lightening' and 'Packenham', each approximately -- 5 x 9in. (12.7 x 22.9cm.) (4)

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Blean: 1,087 tons, 264' x 31½'. launched 15.1.1942; sunk in the Mediterranean by U.443, west of Oran, 11.12.1942
Legion: 1,920 tons, 354' x 37', launched 26.12.1939; sunk by air attack at Malta, 26.3.1942
Lightening: 1,920 tons, 354' x 37', launched 22.4.1940; sunk off the Algerian coast by an Italian M.T.B., 12.2.1943
Packenham [ex-Onslow, renamed August 1941]; 1,550 tons, 338½' x 35', launched 28.1.1941; badly damaged by Italian torpedo boats 16.4.1943 and subsequently sunk by R.N. off Sicily

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