Sir, – I was mightily relieved when I read the letter from the trustees of the Trophy Fund in response to Tearless’ diatribe. I would add three things: A. They tended to focus on silver. Thinking back, there are other precious items which I hope come under their aegis. For example, in frigate Falmouth we had a very splendid portrait of the ship painted by David Shepherd (painter of elephants), who was a buddy of Roddie Macdonald, her first CO: where is it now? And in DLG Norfolk there were shards of German 280mm shell acquired from Scharnhorst during the Battle of the North Cape: worth nothing…
