Lot 85

Description

HMS Anzac, wall plaque handcrafted and painted in plaster (14x18.5cm), the back epoxy filled, fitted onto a timber wall hanging shield (18x22.5cm), the plaque is held onto the shield fitted between two small nails but one nail missing. Most painted areas stained or lacquering discoloured and needs rejuvenation, otherwise fine.

A trawler was hired by the Admiralty in 1916 to act as an auxiliary minesweeper and was renamed HMS Anzac in 1917. In 1919 the Royal Navy gifted five S Class destroyers to the Royal Australian Navy. One of these, HMS Anzac, was a Parker-class flotilla leader which became HMAS Anzac. It is not known which of the two ships this plaque relates to.