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[A German fighting machine succeeded in setting afire the 42,000-ton great English steamship "Empress of Britain", the tenth largest ship in the world. As it was towed away burning, it took another torpedo shot from a German U-Boat and sank.]
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "[A German fighting machine succeeded in setting afire the 42,000-ton great English steamship "Empress of Britain", the tenth largest ship in the world. As it was towed away burning, it took another torpedo shot from a German U-Boat and sank.]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1940. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1cacde4-eabd-3a32-e040-e00a18064701
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "[A German fighting machine succeeded in setting afire the 42,000-ton great English steamship "Empress of Britain", the tenth largest ship in the world. As it was towed away burning, it took another torpedo shot from a German U-Boat and sank.]" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 25, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1cacde4-eabd-3a32-e040-e00a18064701
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1940). [A German fighting machine succeeded in setting afire the 42,000-ton great English steamship "Empress of Britain", the tenth largest ship in the world. As it was towed away burning, it took another torpedo shot from a German U-Boat and sank.] Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1cacde4-eabd-3a32-e040-e00a18064701
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[A German fighting machine succeeded in setting afire the 42,000-ton great English steamship "Empress of Britain", the tenth largest ship in the world. As it was towed away burning, it took another torpedo shot from a German U-Boat and sank.], (1940)
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