Identity area
Reference code
AR894
Title
Date(s)
- 1943 - 1946 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
Two albums
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Custodial:
Given to the donor by the widow of Charles Robert Stenson who served on HMS Millne.
Administrative:
HMS Milne, an M Class Destroyer and the second ship of that name, was launched in Greenock on 31 December 1941 and commissioned on 06 August 1942. It was eventually sold to Turkey in 1959 and renamed. It had been paid for by the County Borough of Croydon following Warships Week of February 1942. See W.C.Berwick Sayers, Croydon and the Second World War (1949), pp.325 -6.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Two photograph albums and loose photographs showing HMS Milne, and its crew, on active service together with views taken in Italy, Jerusalem, Malta etc as well as a tour of the ship by HM King George VI. Also included is a newspaper cutting detailing the gift of the ships ensign to the Mayor of Croydon (Cllr Boddington, Mayor 1943 - 4) by Captain L.M.R. Campbell.