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HMT Empire Windrush Round Lapel Pin

Military Remembrance Pins

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Wear this Empire Windrush Lapel Pin with pride at any time of the year. 

Made with High quality metals and enamels 

2 x Rear metal butterfly pin fasteners.

Size: 30mm 

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HMT Empire Windrush, originally MV Monte Rosa, was a passenger liner and cruise ship launched in Germany in 1930. She was owned and operated by the German shipping line Hamburg Süd in the 1930s under the name Monte Rosa. During World War II she was operated by the German navy as a troopship. At the end of the war, she was taken by the British Government as a prize of war and renamed the Empire Windrush. In British service, she continued to be used as a troopship until March 1954, when the vessel caught fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of four crewmen. HMT stands for "Hired Military Transport" and MV for "Motor Vessel".

In 1948, Empire Windrush brought one of the first large groups of post war West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom, carrying 1,027 passengers and two stowaways on a voyage from Jamaica to London. 802 of these passengers gave their last country of residence as somewhere in the Caribbean: of these, 693 intended to settle in the United Kingdom. British Caribbean people who came to the United Kingdom in the period after World War II, including those who came on later ships, are sometimes referred to as the Windrush generation.



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