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British destroyer HMS VELOX At a buoy (Admiralty V class, after LRE destroyer escort refit - removed first funnel and two guns)
Date 27 May 1944
Source
IWMLondonThumbnail.jpg This is photograph FL 20916 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
Author Royal Navy official photographer
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