HMS Broke - Royal Navy Thornycroft type destroyer leader
HMS Broke (D83) - a Thornycroft type flotilla leader of the British Royal Navy. Second of four ships of this class ordered from J I Thornycroft in April 1918, and originally named Rooke after Rear Admiral Sir George Rooke. Naturalist Peter Scott, among the ship's crew in 1940, conducted experiments in ship camouflage, having the two sides of Broke painted in different patterns
Picture No
14119480
Media ID
47859513
Size
5292px x 3372px
(1.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Pharcide
Source
Postcard published by Abrahams, Devonport
Date
1935
