Warship Week

[1] During the early parts of the war, the Royal Navy not only had lost many capital ships but was facing increasing pressure to provide escorts for convoys in the Atlantic.

[3] A level of savings would be set to raise enough money to provide the cost of building a particular naval ship.

The aim was for cities to raise enough to adopt battleships and aircraft carriers, while towns and villages would focus on cruisers and destroyers.

[4] Local charity organisations, churches and schools would provide the crews of the adopted ship with gloves, woollen socks and balaclavas.

[2] The ship's commanding officer would exchange plaques, objects and photographs with the city or town that reached the target set, and an adoption would begin.

West Bridgford 's Warship Week, aiming to adopt HMS Fury
Plaque presented to HMS Gentian , to mark the ship's adoption by the residents of the Kington Urban and Rural Districts during Warship Week, 29 November – 6 December 1941. Now in Kington Museum .
Fund-raising badge sold during Warship Week in Birmingham , now in Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum