WAR PRIAM / BARDIC /  HOSTILUS / HORATIUS / KUMARA / MARATHON

BUILT IN 1918 BY HARLAND AND WOLFF IN BELFAST, AND LAUNCHED AS THE 'WAR PRIAM'  ( FOR THE SHIPPING CONTROLLER ) . SHE WAS SIMILIAR IN DESIGN TO 'GALLIC'. SHE WAS SOLD TO WHITE STAR AND RE-NAMED 'BARDIC' IN 1919. IN 1924 SHE WENT ASHORE ON STAG ROCK NEAR THE LIZARD, CAME OF WITH DAMAGE AND WAS REPAIRED IN FALMOUTH. ( I GUESS THE TOP PICTURE, IF CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED SHOWS HER STRANDED ON STAG ROCK ) IN 1925 SHE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE ABERDEEN LINE AND WAS RE-NAMED 'HOSTILUS'. IN 1926 SHE WAS RE-NAMED 'HORATIUS', BUT WAS STILL WITH THE ABERDEEN LINE. IN 1932 SHE WAS TRANSFERRED TO SHAW SAVILL & ALBION AND RE-NAMED 'KUMARA'.IN 1936 SHE WAS LAID UP IN THE GARELOCH. 1937 SAW HER SOLD TO A GREEK COMPANY WHO RE-NAMED HER 'MARATHON'.SHE WAS SUNK BY THE 'SCHARNHOST' IN 1941 OF THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS, SHE WAS LAGGING BEHIND IN A CONVEY.

SCHARNHORST

SCHARNHORST WAS ATTACKED BY THE BRITISH VESSELS 'DUKE OF YORK', ' SAVAGE'  AND 'SAUMAREZ'  IN 1943 WHILST SHE WAS ENGAGED IN ATTACKING THE CONVOYS GOING TO MURMANSK.SHE WAS HIT BY 11 TORPEDEOS FROM SAVAGE AND SAUMAREZ AND WAS THEN ENGAGED BY THE CRUISERS 'JAMAICA', 'BELFAST' AND 'NORFOLK'.SHE SANK  THIRTYSIX MINUTES LATER. ONLY 36 OUT OF THE CREW OF 1969 WERE PICKED UP FROM THE SEA.

HMS BELFAST

THIS CRUISER WAS LAUNCHED IN 1938,SERVED THROUGH OUT WW11 AND PLAYED A LEADING PART IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER ' SCHARNHORST'.LATER SHE SUPPORTED U.N FORCES IN THE KOREAN WAR.SHE REMAINED IN SERVICE UNTIL 1965.IN 1971 SHE WAS SAVED FOR THE NATION AS A REMINDER OF BRITAIN'S NAVAL HISTORY,AND AS SUCH IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND IS BERTHED IN LONDON.