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Royal Naval Long Service Medal, Elizabeth II to H.M.S. Saintes

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Royal Naval LSGC Medal, Elizabeth II to H.M.S. Saintes

 

Impressed naming to ; JX.715819 T. DEXTER. L.S. H.M.S. SAINTES.

NEF Condition. Official correction to "JX"

HMS Saintes was a 1942 Battle-class fleet destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN). She and 15 sister ships being ordered under the 1942 defence estimates. The ship was named after the Battle of the Saintes, a Royal Navy victory over a French fleet intending to invade Jamaica in 1782. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. Saintes was built by Hawthorn Leslie and Company on the Tyne. The vessel was launched on 19 July 1944 and commissioned on 27 September 1946.