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Showing posts with label Cressy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cressy. Show all posts
Friday, 21 September 2018

Midshipman John Duncan Stubbs (1899-1914)

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This was written for the archives of the Live Bait Squadron Society .   John Duncan Stubbs (always known as Duncan) was born on 24 June...
Saturday, 25 February 2017

The wrecks of HMS Aboukir, Cressy & Hogue

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The vessels HMS Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue have been designated under the  Protection of Military Remains Act  –  which means that, at long l...
Sunday, 22 September 2013

The Live Bait Squadron: 99 years ago

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On this day in 1914, three British cruisers were sunk in the North Sea, torpedoed by a solitary German submarine.  The Hogue , Aboukir and...
Thursday, 15 November 2012

The Live Bait Squadron, 1914

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Midshipman Duncan Stubbs Major Stubbs' fifteen-year-old son Duncan died on 22 September 1914.  There is a brass tablet in his memory...
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