HMS Boreas bombed during rescue work, 1938

British destroyer HMS Boreas bombed by Spanish government aircraft while transferring survivors of the torpedoed insurgent cruiser Baleares to the Canarias during the Spanish Civil War. Able Seaman George Long was killed on the Boreas by a bomb splinter. Photograph taken by Lieut. Milne-Home on board HMS Kempenfelt

Able Baleares Bombed Boreas Canarias Destroyer Insurgent Kempenfelt Seaman Survivors Torpedoed Transferring

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