Victory at Sea - HMS Duke of York 1224-week-2 Confederate regiments were tough

Confederate regiments were tough

but thousands also fought as Loyalists for the Crown Forces

or the mighty two-handed Dane axe

13 Cannons

Horses were heavily utilised for moving both people and supplies to and from the battlefield

Victory at Sea - HMS Duke of York 1224-week-2 Confederate regiments were toughLaid down in 1937 and commissioned in 1941, HMS Duke of York was a King George V class of battleship. She had the distinction of transporting Winston Churchill across the Atlantic to meet Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Winter of 1941. Churchill wrote of his experience, Being in a ship in weather such as this is like being in a prison, with the extra chance of being drowned. Between March and September of the next year she was involved mainly in convoy