Picture No | 10119745 |
Date | 26th February 1852 |
Description | Wreck of the Birkenhead |
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Laden with soldiers, the troopship, Birkenhead, strikes a rock off Simon's Bay, South Africa : 184 are saved by the boats, 454 lives are lost.
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Source | Thomas M Hemy in the Boy's Own Paper, 1899 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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