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On Tues. 22 Oct 1940 British minesweeping trawlers HMT Joseph Button hi.....

1940-10-22

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British minesweeping trawlers HMT Joseph Button hit a mine and sank 6 miles off Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, killing 5; HMT Hickory also hit a mine and sank in the English Channel South of Weymouth, England, killing 24.

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