Word: troopship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connecting R. I. M. S. Warren Hastings with a rope to the shore, over which 1,200 troops were landed; made an hon. member for life of the mess of the ist Battery King's R. R. for saving life and property from the wreck of the troopship Warren Hastings...
...died, or broke bones, in her; she lost some spars; she took charge of her tugs; her cargoes shifted; she was on fire once and ashore four times." Finally, on April 14, 1907, at anchor in the Elbe River at two o'clock in the morning, a German troopship ran her down and sank her. Her officers and crew got off without loss of life, but she was a total loss. There part of the wreck still lies, in 24 ft. of water...