Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Stern view of H.M.S. FORTH at Cardiff Lock.

Submarine Depot Ship Laid down 1937, launched 1938 by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, and commissioned as a Maidstone-class submarine depot ship in May 1939. She carried a crew of 1167 men. She was stationed at Malta during the 1950s, returning to UK in 1960. 1972 – Renamed HMS DEFIANCE (till 21 April 1978). She served as the depot ship for the Fleet Maintenance Base at HMNB Devonport. Decommissioned on 1st January 1979, she arrived for scrapping at Kingsnorth (on the Medway) on 25th July 1985. (wikipedia)