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"I was asleep in my hammock before the torpedo hit Hecla. I remember the ship shuddering and coming to a halt. This was because the first torpedo hit in the boiler room and we lost all steam....

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History of HMS Cornwall as told by David Reid in memory of Lieutenant David Savile Read - a relative, This was the same ship that Frederick Stanley Gaskin of Cawston lost his life....

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