Battle Honours
(First World War)
- Jutland 1916;
(Second World War)
- Atlantic 1939;
- Narvik 1940,Norway 1940;
- Calabria 1940, Mediterranean 1940-41-43,;
- Malta Convoys 1941, Matapan 1941, Crete 1941:
- Sicily 1943, Salerno 1943:
- English Channel 1944, Normandy 1944, Walcheren 1944, Biscay 1944.
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