' "Amphion"', (1919). Creator: Unknown.

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' "Amphion"', (1919). The battlecruiser 'HMS Amphion' was the first ship of the Royal Navy to be sunk in the First World War. On 6 August 1914 she struck a German mine off the Thames Estuary, and sank with the loss of 132 crew. 'The ill-fated cruiser sunk in the North Sea through striking a mine. Over 130 of the crew and a number of German prisoners of war went to the bottom with her.' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. II, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]

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