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 | | Venetia, two and one-half to three points abaft the beam of the stricken merchantman and 1,300 yards away, simultaneously sounded general quarters and rang down emergency full speed ahead. |
 | | Venetia neared Kodama again shortly under an hour later, and ascertained the count of survivors to be 33, with one man missing. |
 | | The ships arrived at Funchal, Madeira, on the 9th, and Venetia departed on the llth, the day that the armistice was signed at Compiegne, France, ending World War I. The armed yacht made arrival at Ponta Delgada, in the Azores, on the 13th, en route to Gibraltar, which she reached on the 19th. |
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