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Here we see the modified M class destroyer HMS Pigeon (F21) on 31 March 1917, probably in Scapa Flow with the buoys of one of the defensive net barrages seen behind her.
© IWM Q 74292
British Destroyers From Earliest Days to the Second World War, Norman Friedman. A very detailed look at the design of British destroyers from their earliest roots as torpedo boat destroyers, though the First World War and up to the start of the Second World War, supported by vast numbers of plans and well chosen photographs [read full review]
