William Stevenson
History of the World Part 4
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Just nine days later the _King Edward VII_, a pre-dreadnought of16,500 tons, collided with a mine in the North Sea and soon foundered.She was a second-line ship of heavy battery and carried a crew of 777men, all of whom were taken off before the big craft sunk. This wasone of the few instances in which there was no loss of life from mineor torpedo explosions. The accident occurred at a time when the _KingEdward VII_ was accompanied by a number of other vessels, or most ofthe men aboard probably would have been drowned. On a warship, evenmore than a passenger vessel, it is impossible to carry enough boatsfor all. The price of defeat in a naval action inevitably is death.For this reason there was general thanksgiving in England that thecrew of the battleship had been saved, even though the ship was lost.
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