That the Parliament welcomes the decision by the Ministry of Defence to award the Arctic Star medal to the crew of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Dasher for their service during Arctic Convoy JW53 in the Second World War; acknowledges that this recognition comes almost 83 years after the sinking of HMS Dasher on 27 March 1943 off the coast of Ardrossan and the Isle of Arran, which resulted in the tragic deaths of 379 men and was the second biggest loss of life in UK inshore waters during the war; understands that there were only 149 survivors of a disaster, which was caused by catastrophic internal explosions and was hushed up by the wartime government and not reported in newspapers for fear of the impact on British morale; believes that the crew’s heroism, despite the hazardous conditions and the ship’s role in protecting the North Atlantic corridor, deserves lasting recognition; welcomes the memorials erected in Ardrossan in 1993 and the plaque laid on the flight deck by divers in 2000, and encourages families of those who served to apply for the Arctic Star medal and contribute to ongoing research into this important incident in Scotland’s wartime history.