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Description: | Photocopied ts account (2pp) written in May 1916 by the ship's purser of the shelling of the transport ship MERCIAN by a German submarine on 3 November 1915. The MERCIAN, a transport which was at that time proceeding to the Dardanelles with the Lincolnshire Yeomanry on board, was in action in the Mediterranean for nearly an hour and a half with a U-boat, which did not abandon its attack until another surface vessel appeared.
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Catalogue date 1976-09-28 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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