Saturday, 15 September 2012

98 Years On – the anniversary of one of the Royal Navy’s worst Great War disasters is to be remembered in Chatham, ninety eight years to the day.     Some 62 officers and 1,397 men were killed in just 90 minutes when the Armoured Cruisers of the 7th Cruiser Squadron, HOGUE, ABOUKIR and CRESSY were torpedoed in September 1914 off the Dutch coast by a German submarine, U-9.   There were 837 survivors from the lost three cruisers of the Chatham based Squadron.    The three ships were obsolete and manned mostly by reservists and trainees.

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