Historical place archive

Lough Swilly in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Lough Swilly in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

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Historical events in Lough Swilly

1914

27 October 1914
HMS Audacious Loss Secrecy
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill · World War, 1st

Keeps the loss of HMS Audacious from immediate publication after the battleship strikes a mine off the Irish coast.

Provenance

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