Uncategorised H.M. S. Cap tallies ?

[Guest Rick Research]

A freind jusrt picked up a tangle of Royal Navy cap tallies, which I assume are current. They're rather German "BeVo-ish," with the exception of the last one listed, which has some sparkly metallic highlight threads.

Do these ship names reveal anything about age--are these in current or recent service?

H.M.S. CURZON (why would anything have been named after the guy who screwed up Poland's borders, yeesh!?)

H.M.S. DOLPHIN (an endless succession of submarines of that name?)

H.M.S. OSPREY

H.M.S. ZULU (another weird one. Souvenir/fake versus current in service?)

H.M.S. RHYL (the sparkly highlit one)

They came in a clump, multiples except Dolphin and have NO expectation that they are or even were intenede to be "old." Mostly curious if these are in service now--what they are as ships.

[QSAMIKE]

FYI.......

HMS Curzon (K513) was a Captain-class frigate of the British Royal Navy that served during World War II. The ship was laid down as a Buckley-class destroyer escort at the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard at Hingham, Massachusetts on 23 June 1943, with the hull number DE-84, and launched on 18 September 1943. The ship was transferred to the UK under Lend-Lease on 20 November 1943,^[4] and named after either Captain Henry Curzon, who commanded Pallas at the First Battle of Groix (1795), or Captain Edward Curzon who commanded Asia at the Battle of Navarino (1827). There is official uncertainty about which is correct.^[

• HMS Fittleton (M1136), a Ton-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy, renamed HMS Curzon between 1960 and 1975.
• HMS Curzon (K513) was a Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy, in commission from 1943 to 1946.

• HMS Osprey was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1797 and broken up in 1813.
• HMS Osprey was a 12-gun brig launched in 1844 and wrecked in 1846.
• HMS Osprey was a Vigilant-class wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1856 and wrecked in 1867.
• HMS Osprey was an Osprey-class composite screw sloop launched in 1876 and sold in 1890.
• HMS Osprey was a Gipsy-class destroyer launched in 1897 and sold in 1919.

Shore establishments

• HMS Osprey was an anti-submarine training establishment established at Portland between 1924 and 1941, when its functions were transferred to Dunoon. HMS Osprey was at Dunoon until 1946, the name also being allocated to a smaller base established at Belfast in 1943. Osprey recommissioned at Portland in 1946, became a base in 1948 and was closed in 1995. The helicopter station closed in 1999.

• HMS Zulu (1909), a 1905 Tribal-class (or F-class) destroyer that served in World War I
• HMS Zulu (F18), launched in 1937, a 1936 Tribal-class destroyer that served in World War II
• HMS Zulu (F124), launched in 1962, a Tribal-class frigate

HMS Rhyl was a Rothesay or Type 12I class anti-submarine frigate of the British Royal Navy, launched by Lady Macmillan on 23rd february 1959 and commissioned in October 1960. Following Royal Navy service she was sunk as a target in 1985.

Mike

[Odulf]

HMS DOLPHIN, at Fort Blockhouse, Gosport, was the RN Sumbarine Depot and Submarine School since 1905.

Submarines all had individual names or numbers.

[Guest Rick Research]

Thanks--I'll pass that along. Much appreciated!!!!!