A COMMEMORATIVE 'JOLLY ROGER' FROM H.M. SUBMARINE TRIDENT , CIRCA 1945
the backed black cotton field with stitched white calico patches over one side recording fifteen kills; one sinking by gunfire; seven commando operations; and one airman rescued, the reverse with partial white patch inscribed in red cotton H.M.S. Tri.., and calico lanyard sleeve -- 39 x 52in. (99 x 132cm.)

Although the name to the reverse now has only the first three letters surviving, there are only five submarines in the Triton class than begin thus, of these, three (Triton; Triumph and Triad) had been sunk by January 1942, leaving Triumph which had a relatively quiet war with no completed kills. By contrast Trident not only made many successful kills over the three areas of operation to which she was sent, but included is one sinking by gunfire of a Japanese landing craft on the 19th June 1945 which suggests this Jolly Roger records all of Trident's wartime activity. She was broken up in 1946.

Condition Report
Good overall condition save catalogued attribution tag to reverse which lacks latter part of name.

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