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Old 06-06-19, 07:25 PM   #1868
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Just came in from Amazon! Britain's greatest submarine disaster of 1914; the death toll was greater than "Lusitania", and almost exactly that of the "Titanic"...over 1400 dead.

Interesting bit of trivia: one sailor, "Kit" Wykeham-Musgrave, survived all three sinkings! He was stationed on the "Aboukir", rescued by the "Hogue" before it sank, and then rescued by the "Cressy" before it too sank - finally a fishing boat took him to shore.

Not only that - he cheated death AGAIN...After his rescue, Kit was assigned to the battleship HMS "Vanguard". In 1917, "Vanguard" blew up, killing 843 men with only 2 survivors - miraculously, he had been assigned shore duty that day. He lived a long life well into the 1980's, and in fact was one of the last survivors of the Aboukir/Cressy/Hogue disaster.
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