HMS Marshal Soult pearl button sweetheart brooch.

Unusual ships sweetheart of the H.M.S Marshal Soult.
Carrying two 15-inch guns and designed with a shallow draught to enable her to operate in coastal waters, the monitor HMS Marshal Soult joined the Royal Navy's Dover Patrol in November 1915. During the next three years, she was used mainly for the bombardment of land targets and port installations in Belgium, particularly at Zeebrugge and Ostend. She took part in the raid on Ostend on 23 April 1918, when she fired at German shore batteries. The ship became a gunnery training vessel between the two world wars and served as a trawler depot from 1940 to 1945.

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