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    I first heard of the Grosser Kurfurst disaster some ten years ago from my old chum Mickey Moe. He was an A.B. with P&O and just as much of a ship nut as me. By coincidence, Chris and I were driving along Cheriton Road some time later and I saw the big memorial over the sailors grave out of the corner of my eye, as seen in the first photo. We went back and walked through almost to the end of the cemetery and found it. Later we took Mickey and the second photo below shows us sitting on the base. Have not seen him for years and hope nothing untoward has befallen him as he liked his drink and was a bit of a lad. He used to live in the Seamens Mission and many of the pubs round Dover boast his knotboards. He was very talented and a dab hand at ship modelmaking and painting pictures. The inscription on the memorial is to the memory of the comrades of the German Navy who went down on S.M.S. "Grosser Kurfurst" on 31 MAY 1878.










    Google Street View (memorial is at far right of picture):

    http://tinyurl.com/362sc5x

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