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Hi
The Handley Page crew missed their intended target on the raid 9-10 July 1917.....but hit a nearby destroyer with the name "Yadighiar-i-Milet"...
This destroyer sunk beacuse of the attack and a number of marine soldiers died..
It was the MOST succesful air attack on ships during the War and it is "very strange" that the crew did not received the Victoria Cross(perhaps the problem was that they were three..?)...
The ship was raised in October 1917 and sent to Constatinopel, but found unable to repair and was scrapped in late 1917...
The detroyer was built in Germany in 1910 and originally named S-166.
Among references is C&C 18/1 with an excellent article by RD Layman, called "Sunk by Aerial action"..
VBR
Gunnar
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