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Description: | Ts correspondence between HM Monitor M19, the Vice Admiral Commanding the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron, and the Admiralty, December 1915 - April 1916, concerning the explosion of a 9.2" gun on board the monitor. One man was killed and several injured in the explosion and resulting fire, but the M19 was not seriously damaged; the explosion occurred whilst M19 was bombarding Turkish trenches, alongside HMS ABERCROMBIE. Together with a ts letter from the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd to Commander D J D Noble RN, Commander of the M19 at the time of the above explosion, informing him of the vessel's transformation to a crude oil carrier, 7 June 1921.
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Catalogue date 1977-05 | 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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