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Sinking of HMS Courageous

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1939Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1939

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill18 September 1939

Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Corageous is sunk with the loss of over 500 lives

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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