Bouvet_sinking_March_18_1915.jpg
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Summary
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English:
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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Imperial War Museum, catalogue number SP 682
Published 17 April 1915 in L'illustration : journal universel . |
| Author | Unknown author |
| Other versions | Later scene of the sinking |
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