File:Velox.jpg

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Description

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

This is photograph FL 20916 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29)

Author

Royal Navy official photographer

Permission
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It was commercially published prior to 1963; or
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