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Remarks on the loss of HMS Captain and the 18 survivors

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niemann:
The other day while I was browsing the Internet I came across this website Oceanliner which told of the 1870 loss off Spain of a Turrent warship HMS Captian
Of about 500 on board only 18 survied  they were part of the Starboard watch and lived only because a ships boat had broken as the vessel capsized

Here is a link to a photograph of the surviviors at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HMS_Captain_1869_Survivors_1870_(cropped).jpg

As regard their identies  here is another link to the photographic website ALAMY which has a photomontage of the survivors..and their names as well! ;D ;)
https://www.alamy.com/vintage-19th-century-photo-survivors-hms-captain-sunk-1870-image541056651.html See Alamy website for identifications

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