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HMS Thetis

Liverpool Bay

A new submarine that sank on her trials with 99 men trapped inside.

On 1 June 1939, the brand-new submarine HMS Thetis dived during trials in Liverpool Bay, but an open torpedo tube flooded her bow. Her stern stuck out of the water for hours, but rescuers could not get the men out.

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When
1 June 1939
Where
53.5500, -3.9500
Group
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Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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