Picture No | 12016735 |
Date | 1915 |
Description | The Royal Edward liner - sunk at the Dardanelles |
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The Royal Edward,formerly the Cairo, a big, two-funnelled liner which formerly crossed the Atlantic, and was later used as a troop ship. It was torpedoed off the Dardanelles with 32 officers and 1350 troops on board. 600 were saved.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in 'The Sphere', 21 August 1915 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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