PRINCE PHILIP’S SHIPS
ollowing the recent passing of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, the tributes to his life showed how involved he had been with the Royal Navy. In 1939, with Britain on the brink of war with Germany, the young Prince Philip expressed a wish to join the RAF. It was the intervention of his uncle, Louis Mountbatten, then captain of HMS , that persuaded him to follow his family’s long naval tradition, and he entered the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth as a cadet in 1939, passing out at the
