Parish Notes
STANLEY (Derwentside)

Adoption of H.M.S. Anchusa 1942

H.M.S. Anchusa

In Council Offices was a plaque shaped like a shield and bearing the badge of the Admiralty. On it is a small plaque which carried the message :

Presented by
the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty
to Stanley Urban District Council
to commemorate the adoption of
H.M.S. Anchusa
during Warship Week - February 1942.”