HMS Champion Temperature gauge

Purchased from a defunct West county Naval museum this small item of treen is made from teak recovered from HMS Champion, when she was broken up by Metal Industries of Rosyth, Scotland in 1933. HMS Champion was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw service during World War I. She was part of the Calliope group of the C class and Champion was commissioned into service in the Royal Navy on 20 December 1915. She was assigned to the Grand Fleet, serving as the leader of the 13th Destroyer Flotilla through to early 1919. She fought in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, during which she was also the flagship of the senior commander of the fleet's destroyers. She served on post war but was decommissioned in December 1933 and placed under dockyard control and finally sold for scrapping the following year.

This souvenir from the ship was almost certainly made by Lister Woodcrafts and we have seen a number of items made from HMS Champion salvage from garden benches to letter openers. This angular thermometer is quite unusual and the first of this type we have had in. The instrument is made by Rototherm and has a Fahrenheit scale from -20F to +140. The thermometer is working, although we cannot g'tee its accuracy although it is currently reading a toasy 68F in our office! The item measures 4.75" x 4.25" (12 cm x 11 cm) and the gauge diameter is 2 1/2" diameter (6.5 cm)