HMS Shamrock

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Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named Shamrock, after the plant:

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Citations

  1. ↑ Winfield (2008), pp. 346-47.
  2. ↑ Sunderland in the Great War, By Clive Dunn, Gillian Dunn, page 85

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