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Old 29-09-2007, 04:18 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
Geoff,

An amazing story, I am sure you are very proud of him.

You mention the troopship Christiaan Huygens.

The Dutch motor vessel Christiaan Huygens survived the Second
World War, but was wrecked shortly after. On August 26th, 1945,
when in the Scheldt estuary, 10 miles W.N.W. of Westkapelle, she
struck a mine and began to sink. She was beached on the Southern
Steenbank, but on September 5th, broke in two and became a total
loss. One person was killed.

Here are some pictures of her: http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum/Ol...Huygens-01.jpg

http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum/Ol...Huygens-01.jpg


http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum/Ol...Huygens-02.jpg

Regards
Hugh
Thanks Hugh.

I had not looked for quite a while. Now the over, there and back is complete.

Cheers

Geoff
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"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

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