HMS Amphion - Active-class Scout Cruiser
HMS Amphion - Active-class Scout Cruiser of the British Royal Navy - completed in 1913, sunk on August 6, 1914 - the first Royal Naval ship sunk in WW1 (by a mine off the Thames Estuary), losing 132 crew plus an unknown number of the crew rescued from a German minelayer, SMS Konigin Luise on the previous day
Picture No
49208770
Media ID
49208770
Size
5337px x 3424px
(21.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Pharcide
Source
Gale and Polden (G&P)Ltd., 2 Amen Corner, London postcard
Date
circa 1913
