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Vine in 1914: Torpedo Attack
On the morning of 22 September 1914, three British Royal Navy cruisers – HMS Aboukir, HMS Cressy and HMS Hogue – were attacked by a single German U-boat.
More than 1,450 sailors, most of them reservists, lost their lives in what was one of the Navy’s worst ever incidents. It caused great damage to the Navy’s reputation in the eyes of the British public.
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