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WW1 - Lifebelted passengers - Torpedoing of RMS Falaba

WW1 - Aboard the RMS Falaba on 28th March 1915, the photographer captures a moment showing passengers putting on their life-belts. In the brief interval between the order for all on boards to quit the ship, the premature firing of the fatal torpedo from the German U-boat U-28 hits

Picture No
10944076
Media ID
46683691
Size
4492px x 5357px (10.6MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph, in the Illustrated War News, 7th April 1915
Date
1915

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