Town Remembers Those Killed in Double Tragedy

Daily PostNovember 07, 2005

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A TOWN with strong maritime traditions yesterday remembered almost 50 local merchant seamen who were killed when two sister ships sank within eight days of each other during World War I.

In a poignant ceremony exactly 90 years after the double tragedy, local school children led a special remembrance service by laying crosses bearing the names of each victim at Holyhead's war memorial.

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Town Remembers Those Killed in Double Tragedy

On November 5, 1915, HMS Tara was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean off Bardia, Libya, by th...

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