South Tyneside History
Title | H.M.S. Cavalier: Squid Anti-Submarine Mortars |
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Reference Number | STH0006549 |
Photographer | Bardwell Keith |
Town or Village | Hebburn |
Date | 1987 |
Original Format | Colour Photograph |
Period | The 1980s |
Copyright | South Tyneside Libraries |
Further Information | HMS Cavalier, the last destroyer from the 2nd World War, was bought by South Tyneside Coucil for £91.000. in 1987. Here she is in what was the dry dock at Hawthorn Leslies Yard in Hebburn. It was hoped that she would be the centre piece of a Maritme History Centre based at the yard. However the centre did not materialise and after eleven years she was sold to The Historic Dock Yard Chatham, Kent. |