The Llandovery Castle was travelling to Bristol after taking wounded Canadian servicemen home. She was displaying all the right signals to say she was a Hospital ship but just near the Fastnet lighthouse, she was torpedoed. What happened next angered the world.
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SOURCES
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 13 July 1921
Aberdeen Press and Journal - Thursday 14 July 1921
"The Sinking of the Llandovery Castle". The Great War Primary Documents Archive. 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 18 July 1921
Larne Times - Saturday 06 July 1918
Mullins, C, 1921, The Leipzig Trials: An Account of the War Criminals' Trials and Study of German Mentality, Witherby, London
Western Daily Press - Wednesday 30 April 1919
Murray, M, 1953, Union-Castle Chronicle, Longmans, Green & Co, London
Willis, J, 1982, Prologue to Nuremberg: The Politics and Diplomacy of Punishing War Criminals of the First World War, Greenwoord Publishing Group
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