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| | HMS Highflyer which sank the 'Kaiser Willhem der Grosse' off West Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The light cruiser 'Highflyer' which sank the 'Kaiser Willhem der Grosse' off West Africa, is a training-ship for Naval Cadets, and forty boys from public schools who became midsipmen las September were on board her at the outbreak of war. |
 | | Their physical-training instructor, Captain B.F. Trench, of the Marines, was, in 1910, sentanced at Berlin to four years' detention in a German fortress on a charge of espionage. |
 | | The 'Highflyer' is a 20-knot light class cruiser with a length of 350 feet and a displacement of 5600 tons. |
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