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Bouvet sinking March 18 1915
Summary
Photo capturing the last moments of the French battleship Bouvet which struck a mine in the Dardanelles on 18 March 1915, capsized and sank within two minutes, killing over 600 men. A caption in L'illustration sets the time of the image as 13:58 on 18 March 1915 and states that the photograph was taken from an English ship.
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Date
18/03/1915
Source
Imperial War Museum, catalogue number SP 682Published 17 April 1915 in L'illustration : journal universel.
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