Picture No | 10652318 |
Date | 5 October 1939 |
Description | Sinking of the Stonegate by G. H. Davis |
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The Deutschland's first victim: the sinking of the British merchant ship Stonegate in the Atlantic. The crew were first ordered to abandon ship, and were taken on board the Deutschland. Four days later the Deutschland captured the American freighter, City of Flint.
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Source | Illustration by George Horace Davis in ‘The Illustrated London News’, 11 November 1939, p706-7 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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