WWII SHIP'S BELL OF H.M.S. PERSIMMON (JAPANESE SUMATRA SURRENDER SIGNED ON BOARD 1945)

H.M.S. Persimmon was launched on 25 Sep 1943 and commissioned in late 1944 as a Large Landing Ship Infantry, captined by William Emerson Gelling and stationed in the Far East, accepting the surrender of Japanese troops on 3 Oct off Emmahaven, Port of Padang, where at 10am, the Commanders in chief of all three Japanese services in Samatra provisionally signed the terms of surrender on board (this pictured at the Imperial War Museum) with Captain Sayer, Royal Navy, Major General Chambers, Major General Spits and Squadron Leader Thompson present. She was then used at the Allied landings at Medan, Sumatra on 9 Oct 1945, finally reverting to a mercantile ship "pampas" in 1946.