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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15044, 11 April 1919, Page 2

,: A relic of; tlis- Vanguard, whose sinking .by., explos-ioa with the loss of 800 hyes- was one; of the greatest single disasters to the Navy during the war, has come to Devon under curious circumstances. A framed photo found three miles:, fram tlie scene of the explosion (Scapa Flow Harbour).had been assumed: to.be* the only relic, and this is m possession: of the Bishop of London who was m tlie. group photographed. Kecently, .however, a diary presented by his- fiancee to an officer of the Vanguard (only son of Mr Willard,.a Devon schoolmaster) was picked up on the Chores-of Scapa Bay, and has been forwarded to the' young lady. The' battlesnip went down IS months ago, and presumably the diary had been in the water ever since.-.