Yesterday, the wreck of the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke, was found, lost after being torpedoed by the German submarine U-9 on 15 October 1914, off the coast of Aberdeen. This is a nationally important find – 524 sailors died and only 74 survived.

 

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