{"product_id":"hms-mendip-l60-hunt-class-destroyer-march-1948-photo-print","title":"HMS Mendip L60 Hunt Class Destroyer March 1948 Photo Print","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003ca title=\"HMS Mendip Photo prints\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshireprints.co.uk\/search?q=%22hms+mendip%22\u0026amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\"\u003eHMS Mendip\u003c\/a\u003e (L60), a Royal Navy \u003ca title=\"Royal Navy Hunt Class Photo prints\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshireprints.co.uk\/collections\/royal-navy-hunt-class-destroyers-photo-prints\"\u003eHunt Class\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca title=\"Royal Navy Destroyers Photo prints\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshireprints.co.uk\/collections\/royal-navy-destroyer-photo-prints\"\u003edestroyer\u003c\/a\u003e, lies moored on calm grey water on 4th March 1948, seen side-on from her starboard side under a pale, hazy sky. Flags fly at her bow and stern, and her twin gun mountings fore and aft stand out clearly in her plain post-war paint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMendip was a Type I Hunt, built by Swan Hunter at Wallsend, launched on 9th April 1940 and commissioned on 12th October 1940. Like the rest of her group she spent much of the Second World War escorting convoys along Britain’s coasts, and was paid off in 1946. Few \u003ca title=\"Royal Navy Warships Photo prints\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshireprints.co.uk\/collections\/royal-navy-warship-photo-prints\"\u003ewarships\u003c\/a\u003e had a stranger later life. Soon after this photograph she was lent to Nationalist China as Lin Fu, returned to the Royal Navy in 1949, then sold to Egypt, where she became Ibrahim el Awal. On 31st October 1956, during the Suez Crisis, she was captured by the Israeli Navy off Haifa and served as INS Haifa until 1968.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eYou can read more about the history of HMS Mendip \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshireprints.co.uk\/blogs\/royal-navy-warship-and-submarine-classes-complete-guide\/hms-mendip-l60-e-boat-alley-omaha-beach-and-a-life-under-four-flags\" title=\"HMS Mendip History\"\u003eHERE\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis print is ideal for Royal Navy veterans, families of those who served in Hunt Class destroyers, and anyone interested in this remarkable four-navy ship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImage Taken: 4th March 1948\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhotographer: Royal Navy official photographer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e© Public Domain - Restored by Hampshire 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