Thread: HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy to be scrapped.
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Old 01-10-12, 02:55 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by nikimcbee View Post
(no disrespect to the Brits) This is one of my favorite U-Boat stories. I can only imagine what it was like to be in the control room of the U-9 Three cruisers!
Then you should also imagine what it was like to be the same captain, in the control room of U-29, when that boat was run over and squashed like a bug by 18,000 tons of HMS Dreadnought.
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