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Friday 1 July 2016

British torpedo boats torpedoed off Scheveningen, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Leeuwarder courant dated 16 August 1918

An item reported that two British torpedo boats which protected the yesterday afternoon arrived convoy were off Scheveningen, Netherlands torpedoed. Four sailors drowned. Another newspaper Tilburgsche courant dated 16th confirmed the news adding that the arrival was on the Nieuwe Waterweg at Hoek van Holland, Netherlands and that the attack found place during the changing of the coming and going convoys. Another Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf dated 16th reported that the attack was unknown for the Dutch authorities.