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by Lindsay Clubb on Fri 05 May 2006 20:23 BST | Permanent Link

Reproduced here with the kind permission of the Tyne & Wear Archives Service - Copyright. Please note: Tyne & Wear Archives Service images may not be copied without their permission.

HMS Rushen Castle was launched at Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne on Friday, 16 July 1943 by Mrs Nancy Forster (above left).

If you would like a high quality scan of this photograph, please write to Tyne & Wear Archives Service quoting the above reference number.

Keywords: nancy, forster

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