DESTROYER RUN DOWN
CUT IN TWO BY BATTLESHIP LONDON, May' 23. The British battleship King George V sliced through an escorting destroyer in the same way as the liner Queen Mary ran down the cruiser Curacao. The "Daily Express" says the'accident occurred in May, 1942, off the west coast of Ireland., five months before the Queen Mary crash. The King George V sliced H.M.S. Punjabi in half right through the engine-room. Only a handful of the destroyer's complement of 190 survived. The battleship, with her bows buckled, went to Liverpool and squeezed into Gladstone dock with only inches to spare. The secret was closely kept because Britain's battleship position was then serious, as the whole eastern Mediterranean battle squadron of the Barham, Queen Elizabeth, and Valiant had been sunk or damaged.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1945, Page 5
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