WW1 Bronze Royal Navy HMS Marvel Gun Tampion (Destructeur Amirauté Classe en ligne M)

WW1 Bronze Royal Navy HMS Marvel Gun 7.5” x 7.5” Tampion (Admiralty M-Class Destroyer)

HMS Marvel was an Admiralty M-class destroyer which served with the RN, commissioned in 1915.

In 1916, the destroyer sailed with the Grand Fleet to confront the German High Seas Fleet in what would be the Battle of Jutland, forming part of the First Division of the Flotilla that was led by Faulknor and included sister ships Mindful, Obedient and Onslaught. The division was deployed in action against the German light cruisers but was attacked by main batteries of the battleships and battlecruisers which were at the centre of the action, with the Marvel taking a hit. However, she carried on sinking a torpedo boat V48.

She also was involved with the sinking of the German steamship, SS Gamma and spent the rest of the war escorting large flotillas. She was finally decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1921.

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