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Sinking of HMS Britannia. On the morning of 9 November 1918, captained by Francis F. Caulfield RN, Britannia was on a voyage in the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar when she was torpedoed off Cape Spartel by the German submarine UB-50. 50 men died and 80 were injured. In total, 39 officers and 673 men were saved. One of those was Able seaman Arthur Jeeves whose son Jack lives in Taliesin.

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