Sinking of the Baleares

The cruiser Baleares, torpedoed by a Spanish government destroyer off Cartagena during the Spanish Civil War, with her stern lifting into the air and some of the crew on the quarter deck, while others slide down ropes into the water. Photograph taken by Lieut. Milne-Home, a gunnery officer in HMS Kempenfelt, which, with another British destroyer HMS Boreas, did gallant work in rescuing survivors from the Baleares

Baleares Cartagena Destroyer Kempenfelt Sinks Stern Torpedoed

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