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Another WW1 Wreck Found Off Orkney

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  1. GRW

    GRW Pillboxologist WW2|ORG Editor

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    This time HMS Pheasant. With the number of WW1 wrecks being found recently, someone somewhere must being doing some serious research.
    "The site where a World War One warship is believed to have been sunk by a mine has been located close to Orkney's Old Man of Hoy.
    An archaeological maritime survey identified the wreck as HMS Pheasant.
    The destroyer sank on 1 March 1917 after hitting a mine believed to have been laid by a German U-boat.
    All 89 crew on board were lost. Only the body of Midshipman Reginald Campbell Cotter, 20, was recovered and he was buried at Lyness on Hoy.
    The Clyde-built HMS Pheasant had set out from Stromness on a patrol when it sank.
    Archaeologists believe it struck a mine which had been laid about two months earlier by submarine U-80."
    Wreck of lost WW1 ship found off Orkney
     
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    Looks intact in so far as such a crude echo image can show and something of a surprise that there were no survivors from a mine explosion. I wish the article had more detail, did these ships have the same issues with ammunition discharges that RN Battlecruisers have at Jutland?
     
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