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| | Navy News - News Desk - News - Victims of early submarine disasters are remembered (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Only four sailors were saved when a battery explosion destroyed HMS A8 off Plymouth Breakwater in May 1905, killing 15. |
 | | One hundred years on from the disaster, the gravestones of 11, in Ford Park Cemetery in Plymouth, are in a poor state – some have fallen victim to the weather, others have been attacked by vandals. |
 | | A8, in company with A7, a torpedo boat and the cruiser HMS Forth, parent ship of the submarine squadron, had left Devonport in the morning for exercises off Looe, carrying a crew of 12 and seven trainees. |
| www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2005/0503/0005030801.asp (850 words) |
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