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Here we see two boarding parties returning to the H class destroyer HMS Hotspur after a training exercise directed by the anti-submarine escort training ship Philante. The Philante had originally been built as a private yacht by Thomas Sopwith, but purchased for the Royal Navy in 1939. She was used as an escort training ship in 1943-45. She survived the war, and since 1947 has served as the Royal Yacht of Norway, as the KS Norge.
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