Description: A very nice example of aWW-II eraRoyal NavyBoatswain's Whistlec.1939 - 1945 Historically, the Bosun's whistle was used aboard ship to communicate signals & commands that could not be heardby a human voice above the sound of the sea,in the manner that ground-based forces used the bugle or signal-horn. Eventually with the advent of electronic communicationand the gradual increase in enclosed bridges,the Bosun's whistle-call become more synonymouswith a more traditional usage, such as piping aboard & ashoresenior officers, the raising of the Union flag, marking sunsetand in certain circumstances, at naval funerals Measuring 4" long and in full working order,with a double War Department Arrow marking on the ball,this is a really good archetypal example of a WW-IIRoyal Naval Matelot's Bosun's whistle. Thanks for looking..! We are pleased to have acquired a private Royal Naval Collection that includes a number of items of historical antecedence from the Royal Navy's most important capital ships of World War One & World War Two ..some that featured at the Great War's 'Battle of Jutland' and against the Kriegsmarine in WW-II in 'The Battle of the Denmark Straits' and 'The Hunting of Graf Spee & Bismarck' Included are items from illustriously-named battleships & heavy cruisers such as HMS Dorsetshire, Suffolk, Malaya, Newcastle, Glorious, Rodney, Grand Duke, Royal Sovereign, Hood, Vanguard, Benbow etc. Once fully researched & documented, we will slowly start to list them for sale here in our our eBay shop and also via our display cases down at The Lyndhurst Antiques Centre in The New Forest..
Price: 65 GBP
Location: Winchester, Hampshire
End Time: 2024-11-24T09:00:48.000Z
Shipping Cost: 27.29 GBP
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Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
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HMS Suffolk: HMS Norfolk
Issued/ Not-Issued: Issued
Clothing Type: Bosun's Whistle
Kriegsmarine: Third Reich
D-Day 6th June 1944: Bismarck
Admiral Graff Spee: Far East Squadron
Service: Navy
HMS Ajax: Scapa Flow
Burma: Empire of Japan
Battle of the River Plate: Battle of the Java Sea
Modified Item: No
HMS Hood: HMS Iron Duke
Type: Personal Gear
Londonderry: Luftwaffe
Conflict: World War II (1939-1945)
Era: 1914-1945
Country/ Organization: Great Britain
Arctic Convoys: Nelson Class Battleships
Theme: Militaria
HMS Dorsetshire: HMS Glorious
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Portsmouth: Plymouth
U-boots: Devonport
