Where Is Prince Philips Warship Now

He served in the Royal Navy for more than a decade. He fought in the Mediterranean, the North Sea and the Pacific. He was mentioned in despatches at nineteen. And of every warship he served aboard, not one survives. This is the story of the ships of Prince Philip — nine of them. The cruiser HMS Calypso that carried him out of Greece as a baby in a fruit box. The battleship HMS Valiant, where a nineteen-year-old midshipman worked the searchlights in the night action at Cape Matapan. The worn-out destroyer HMS Wallace on the east coast convoys, in E-boat Alley and off Sicily. HMS Whelp in Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender. And HMS Magpie, the only ship he ever commanded — for less than a year. Every one of them has a different ending. Put side by side, those endings tell the story of what happened to the entire Royal Navy after 1945. So where is Prince Philip's warship now? CHAPTERS 0:00 Not one survives 1:45 A fruit box on a cruiser 3:04 No home, no money, no country 4:33 Dartmouth 5:29 The wrong passport 6:41 Cape Matapan 9:12 E-boat Alley 10:55 The raft off Sicily 11:38 Tokyo Bay 13:39 His own command 16:08 Where are the ships now 18:10 Whelp's second life 19:25 Why nothing survived 21:23 Action Stations Where in the world are you watching from? If you served in the Royal Navy — or your father or grandfather did — tell us his ship in the comments. There's a good chance someone here served aboard one of the ships in this video. SOURCES & ARCHIVE Photographs are drawn from Wikimedia Commons, including holdings of the Imperial War Museums, the Royal Museums Greenwich, the Library of Congress, the U.S. National Archives, the Nationaal Archief (Netherlands) and the State Library of Victoria. Archival film comes from the U.S. National Archives and Universal Newsreels via the Internet Archive, and from Wikimedia Commons. Wartime Crown Copyright and U.S. federal material is in the public domain. Only one photograph each is known to survive in the public domain for HMS Wallace, HMS Whelp and HMS Chequers. Where the narration describes those ships, other shots show their sister ships of the same classes (V and W, W and Z, and C-class destroyers; Black Swan-class sloops), which were near-identical. CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION Images licensed CC BY / CC BY-SA, used with credit to their authors (licence texts: creativecommons.org/licenses). CC BY-SA 3.0: Hedwig Storch; Texniths; Nibaba; Cavalry; Michael Kieloch; Nilfanion; A. Bernini; Fortepan / Székelyi Péter; Famiglia Bernini; MrPanyGoff; Continentaleurope; Karelj; Renegade; H Pitchford (attrib.); Myrabella; Garitan; Brian Burnell; סא"ל אלי רגב נהריה; Kstevens61; Daguero; Peter Southwood; Simon Just; Bgabel; Swpmre; Dom0803; Hammersfan; Ardfern CC BY-SA 4.0: Imaginepics; LarchOak; 541pigeon; Inherited; Nilfanion; Fotoalbums voormalig Instituut voor Maritieme Historie; Al*from*Lig; Losse Fotografische Objecten; Audiovisuele Dienst Koninklijke Marine (AVDKM); Editor9193; Mike Peel; Cosal; JohnC1939; Poetj; Alan Blakely; Wolves201; Хомелка; Acabashi; Chabe01; Dietmar Rabich; Mariegriffiths; Qpwoeizmxnr; Taras Young; GrindtXX CC BY-SA 2.0: Hugh Llewelyn; Adam Jones; Peter Moore; Alex Alishevskikh; Derek Voller; Roger Wilson; Richard Hoare CC BY 2.0: Robert Cutts; John Haslam; Bengt Nyman; Archives New Zealand; Miguel Mendez; Simon Harriyott CC BY 4.0: Mam16600 / Tripyana; Aarne Pietinen Oy; Springnuts; Robertphotforsale; Hugo Sundström; Wpcpey CC BY 3.0: kajikawa; ianpudsey MUSIC "Soundscape - Dust - Ambient Guitar" by Tri-Tachyon, licensed CC BY 4.0 https://freesound.org/people/Tri-Tach...