P&O Liner SS Maloja - Mined off Dover, February 27th 1916

• Guest 651

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  31 July 2010     21:1063344
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  Another accidental, but interesting, find:
  
  http://www.ssmaloja.co.uk/
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 644

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  31 July 2010     21:2163346
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  Was it ever resolved if the Maloja was mined or torpedoed? The wreck is occasionally visited by divers I believe.
  
  The AA Corps I keep banging about formed the rear of the funeral procession.
• Guest 673

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  31 July 2010     21:4963353
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  Dramatic painting of the sinking on my fotopic site (click "full size" below opened photo for full detail).
  
  I am away at the moment but there is a description of the harrowing scenes of survivors being attended to in the Lord Warden Hotel in one of the Dover books, possibly "Dover during the dark days."
  
  
  http://shipsintheportofdover.fotopic.net/p44360801.html
• Guest 651

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  31 July 2010     22:0163355
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  We have so many events like this that few people know about like the one posted a few weeks ago about the sinking of a couple of German ships in the 1880s..
  
  If I had the guts for it, some of the wrecks sound very interesting
  
  http://www.canterburydivers.org.uk/wrecks.html
  Been nice knowing you :)