Lot 73

A Cast Ship's Badge from the Russian Cruiser ASKOLD (HMS GLORY)
26 x 30 x 3cm.(10 x 12 x 1.25in.)

Marine Works of Art

25 February 2004, 14:00 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £493.50 inc. premium

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A Cast Ship's Badge from the Russian Cruiser ASKOLD (HMS GLORY)

in the form of the Romanov Imperial Coat of Arms, on a shaped polished mahogany shield and bearing on the reverse a handwritten label "HMS Glory lV Russia 1919, coat of arms taken from Russian Cruiser Askold whose crew revolted". 26 x 30 x 3cm.(10 x 12 x 1.25in.)

Footnotes

The fast cruiser ASKOLD was built in Kiel and commissioned in 1902 for the Imperial Russian Navy. She served with distinction in the Russo-Japanese War in the Pacific, under the French at the Dardanelles in WW1 and finally with the Arctic Flotilla of the Russian Fleet. It was here in 1917 that she was seized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution. In July 1918 she was captured by the British and taken to Gareloch, where she was renamed HMS GLORY (lV) and sereved in the British Fleet. Notable for her five narrow smoke stacks, she was known as the "packet of Woodbines".
In 1921 she was reoffered to the Russian Government, but declined owing to her poor condition. She was broken up in Germany in 1922.

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A Cast Ship's Badge from the Russian Cruiser ASKOLD (HMS GLORY) 26 x 30 x 3cm.(10 x 12 x 1.25in.)