HMS Hereward (H93)
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HMS Hereward, named after Hereward the Wake, was a H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. She was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet and spent four months in Spanish waters duri
Hereward underway, 20 December 1939
Hereward (foreground) depicted on the day of her sinking in a painting by Rowland Langmaid
Wilhelmina was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, making her the longest-reigning monarch in Dutch history, as well as the longest-reigni
HMS Hereward (H93)
…commerce raiders and blockade runners, capturing one of the latter in November. Hereward was transferred to the Home Fleet in May 1940 and rescued Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands after the Germans had invaded. The ship was transferred back to the Mediterranean Fleet later that month and escorted convoys to Malta and larger ships…
State Portrait, 1936
Queen Wilhelmina in the 1890s
Queen Victoria and Queen Wilhelmina in a montage photo (1895)
Wilhelmina's inauguration