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Description: 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.
Title: Bouvet sinking March 18 1915
Credit: Imperial War Museum, catalogue number SP 682 Published 17 April 1915 in L'illustration : journal universel.
Author: Unknown authorUnknown author
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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