The recited poem celebrates the ships of the Fighting Tenth returning from sea. The force comprised three Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyers, two Canadian Tribals, two Polish vessels, and HMS Javelin, while HMS Nubian was away in the Mediterranean. Their task was to keep the western approaches from Plymouth clear for the Normandy landings. The ship list preserves the multinational character of those destroyer operations.
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The Fighting Tenth and the Tribal destroyers
The Fighting Tenth's multinational destroyers protected the western approaches to the Normandy invasion.