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Title: Shipbuilding and Shipping Record
Year: 1918 (1910s)
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Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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THE TORPEDOED REWA.
"The loss of the Rewa was officially announced by the Secretary of the Admiralty in the following communique:—
"His Majesty's hospital ship Rewa was torpedoed and sank in the Bristol Channel about midnight on January 4 on her way home from Gibraltar.
"All the wounded were safely transferred to patrol vessels, and there were only three casualties among her crew, three Lascars being missing.
"She was displaying all the lights and markings required by the Hague Convention, and she was not—and had not been—within the so-called barred zone as delimited in the statement issued by the German Government on January 29, 1917.
"Full details of this crime have already appeared in the press,and it is unnecessary. therefore, to dwell further upon them, suffice
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The Torpedoed Hospital Ship Rewa.
"it to say that the Rewa is the sixth British hospital ship that has been torpedoed and sunk without warning.
"The illustration shows the vessel as she appeared when she was fitted out as a hospital ship."
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Rewa ran aground at the Suez Canal in November 1906 but was refloated.. Later in 1918 she was hit by a torpedo 19 mi (31 km) off en:Hartland Point. The ship took around two hours to sink, allowing all wounded and ship's crew to board lifeboats except for the four engine men who died in the initial explosion.She was not grounded at any point during that incident.
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- bookcontributor:Gerstein___University_of_Toronto
- booksponsor:MSN
- bookleafnumber:17
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