This memorial is inside Crew Municipal Building which is opposite the War Memorial
Presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to Nantwich R.D. (Cheshire) to commemorate the adoption of HMS Blankney during Warship Week, 7th February 1942
HMS BLANKNEY completed refit after VJ Day and the ship returned to UK. In May 1946 she was Paid off and entered Reserve at Devonport . The ship had a refit in 1948 and was then laid up in Reserve Fleet at Sheerness . Later during 1952 she was transferred to moved to Hartlepool .Approval was given for her to be placed on the Disposal List on 22nd October 1958. Placed on the Sales list the next year she was sold to BISCO for demolition by Hughes Bolcow at Blyth and arrived at the breakers yard in tow on 9th March that year.
HMS Blankney was a Hunt class destroyer of the Royal Navy and was the first and so far only warship to bear the Name. She was laid down on 17 May 1940 at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland, launched on 19 December 1940 and commissioned on 11 April 1941.
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