DEATH-ROLL OF 578
EPITAPH TO THE CAPTAIN
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
LONDON, September 20,
The Admiralty announces that 72 officers and 610 ratings were saved after the sinking of the aircraft-carrier H.M.S. Courageous.
The Admiralty adds that it deeply regrets that this must be regarded as the final list. This means that 18 officers and 560 ratings have been lost.
A noble epitaph of Captain Makeig Jones is supplied by William Furze, A.8., one of the survivors, who said: "The last I saw of the skipper he was saluting the Ensign."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 71, 21 September 1939, Page 12
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