HMS Prince of Wales and USS McDougal.
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill (seated upper left in front of their standing staff members) at divine service aboard the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales, during the Atlantic Charter meeting. August 1941. Roosevelt abd Churchill aboard HMS Prince of Wales attending a church service, flanked by the British and American crew of USS McDougal,
The result of the meeting in August 1940 at Placentia Bay off the coast of Newfoundland was the issuing of the joint policy statement known as the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Charter. For the United States the war would start in 4 months and HMS Prince of Wales was sunk only three days afterwards.
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Stores Basin, Sembawang Dockyard, Singapore, 1974. RFA TIDESURGE and RFA TIDESPRING visiting with HMS LONDONDERRY, HMS SYCLLA, HMS DANAE, HMS CHICHESTER, HMAS VENDETTA, HMS HYDRA, HMS ARIADNE, HMS WASPERTON, HMS YARNTON, HMNZS OTAGO,
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