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HMS Aboukir

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1902 HMS Aboukir Royal Navy

Fate

The Cressy-class Armoured Cruiser Aboukir, and her sister ships Cressy and Hogue, were torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea by the German submarine U-9, on September 22nd, 1914. Five hundred and twenty seven men from the Aboukir lost their lives, including three from the Hartlepools, William John George Barrett, John Hogan and John Sanderson.

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