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    HMHS Llandovery Castle, built in 1914 in Glasgow as RMS Llandovery Castle for the Union-Castle Line, was one of five Canadian hospital ships that served...
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    wounded soldiers from the front lines. The Canadian hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle was torpedoed by the German submarine SM U-86 on 27 June 1918 in...
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  • captain of U-86, the vessel that sank a Canadian hospital ship, HMHS Llandovery Castle, in 1918. Patzig evaded prosecution at the Leipzig War Crimes Trials...
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    HMHS Glenart Castle (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) was a steamship originally built as Galician in 1900 for the Union-Castle Line. She was renamed Glenart...
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    HMHS Lady Nelson HMHS Leinster HMHS Letitia HMHS Llandovery Castle HMHS Maid of Kent HMHS Manunda HMHS Maunganui HMHS Naushon HMHS Newfoundland HMHS Oxfordshire...
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    ship Llandovery Castle on 27 June 1918 off the coast of Ireland. Dithmar and Boldt were accused of machine-gunning the survivors of Llandovery Castle's sinking...
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    both world wars. In World War I these included SS Letitia (I) and HMHS Llandovery Castle which was deliberately sunk by a German U-boat with great loss of...
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    amputee to survive from this war. Christian returned to Canada aboard HMHS Llandovery Castle in September 1917. He received prosthetic limbs in Toronto. During...
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    in the UK and Greece. She died when the Canadian hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland. McLean was born in Souris...
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    Lieutenant Helmut Patzig, U-86 sank the Canadian hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle off the coast of Ireland, in violation of international law and...
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  • with divisi) Martin's first opera, The Llandovery Castle, is about the 1918 sinking of HMHS Llandovery Castle and was inspired when Martin noticed a commemorative...
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  • renamed a few weeks later, and sold in 1922. Rescued the survivors of HMHS Llandovery Castle. The third HMS Lysander (J379) was an Algerine-class minesweeper...
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    submarine U-33. The sinking of the hospital ships HMHS Llandovery Castle, HS Koningin Regentes and HMHS Dover Castle. Anglo-German naval arms race German entry...
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    ISBN 9781590775264. - Total pages: 826 Porter, Ken; Wynn, Stephen (2015). Castle Point in the Great War. Pen and Sword. ISBN 9781473855175. - Total pages:...
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    Battle of Trafalgar mural by William Lionel Wyllie, Juno Tower HMHS Llandovery Castle (210 dead, 24 survivors, June 1918) plaque, Stadacona Health Centre...
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    being scrapped in 1920. In June 1918, the Canadian hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle was deliberately sunk by a U-boat which machine gunned survivors...
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    1918, 14 nurses were killed when their hospital ship Hospital Ship HMHS Llandovery Castle was torpedoed while travelling from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Liverpool...
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    Jun: SM UC-11, Wimmera 27 Jun: HMHS Llandovery Castle 28 Jun: HMS D6, Onondaga Other incidents 4 Jun: RMS Kenilworth Castle 12 Jun: USS Helianthus 13 Jun:...
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    status. UB-32 damaged HMHS Gloucester Castle in March 1917, U-55 sank HMHS Rewa in January 1918 and U-86 sank HMHS Llandovery Castle in June 1918. Commanded...
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  • as in the case of the machine-gunning of the survivors of the HMHS Llandovery Castle hospital ship. Allied submarines (such as HMS Torbay and USS Wahoo)...
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    Algeria, 1942 MV Llangibby Castle SS Llanstephan Castle - Union Castle Line, 11,293 GRT - sister ship of HMHS Llandovery Castle HMAS Manoora HMNZS Monowai...
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    original on 29 June 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2007. "The sinking of HMHS Llandovery Castle". World War One Document Archive. 30 October 2000 [1920]. Archived...
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    RMS Kenilworth Castle was a British Passenger ship that served for the Union-Castle Line until its scrapping in 1937. It also served as a troop transport...
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    U-boat torpedoed a hospital ship from the port of Halifax named HMHS Llandovery Castle. Escaping lifeboats were pursued and sunk by the U-boat and the...
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    listed on the monument are the nursing sisters who died on the HMHS Llandovery Castle during World War 1. (415 Canadians from naval and merchant ships...
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  • his ship encountered the wreckage of the Canadian hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle to the southwest of Fastnet rock. Against standing orders, the ship...
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  • service personnel on June 27, 1918, when HMHS Llandovery Castle was sunk by the SM U-86. The Llandovery Castle was one of five Canadian hospital ships...
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  • on 27 June 1918, 14 nurses were killed when their hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle was torpedoed while travelling from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Liverpool...
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    Goychay, Azerbaijan from the 11th Red Army. Canadian hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by German submarine...
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    and the entire north end of the city destroyed. The sinking of HMHS Llandovery Castle by a U-boat in June 1918 marks the deadliest Canadian naval disaster...
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