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A white metal cigar box, the lid embossed with a cruiser at sea, the inside engraved 'H.M.S. Caroline built by Cammell Laird & Co Ltd Sheffield and Birkenhead', the front with applied decoration embossed with a camel -- 8in. (20.3cm.) wide; and a printed silk picture Souvenir of the Victory of Jutland May 31st 1916
H.M.S. Caroline, a light cruiser of 4,219 tons, was built in 1914 by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead. She spent the entire Great War (from December 1914) in the North Sea with the Grand Fleet, including action at Jutland, and then served in the East Indies from 1919 to 1922. Paid off in 1922, she became the R.N.V.R. Drillship in Belfast Lough in 1926 and is still afloat there, the very last surviving vessel to have fought at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May - 1 June 1916. (2)
H.M.S. Caroline, a light cruiser of 4,219 tons, was built in 1914 by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead. She spent the entire Great War (from December 1914) in the North Sea with the Grand Fleet, including action at Jutland, and then served in the East Indies from 1919 to 1922. Paid off in 1922, she became the R.N.V.R. Drillship in Belfast Lough in 1926 and is still afloat there, the very last surviving vessel to have fought at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May - 1 June 1916. (2)