The Republican battleship Jaime I blew up and sank at Cartagena.
Jamie I at anchor.
Britain’s 1962 Box Back version of Wells’ Little Wars
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Browsing through James Opie’s Great Book of Britain’s 1893-1993, I found
this interesting variation on Wells’ Little Wars printed on the back of
some Brita...
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Nice photo of an interesting looking early Dreadnought. Do you know the cause of the explosion?
ReplyDeleteWilliam Stewart,
DeleteThe Spanish dreadnoughts were the smallest built, and were barely larger that the last of the pre-dreadnoughts.
The ship had been damaged as a result of a Nationalist air attack, and was being repaired. A small internal explosion started a fire which did extensive damage. There were accusations of sabotage, but they were never substantiated.
All the best,
Bob