HMS Protector with Chilean navy paid homage to British losses at battle of Colonel, November 1914

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Crew members Sailors from Ice Patrol HMS Protector, A173, and their Chilean allies paid homage to British sailors lost in one of the first great naval actions of World War 1. One hundred and ten years to the day that the Royal and German Navies clashed three dozen miles off the coast of Chile, the icebreaker ship’s crew joined Chilean sailors for a service of remembrance in the city which gave the battle its name: Coronel. Read full article

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mollymauk
Just for accuracy, Battle of the Falklands, when the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and other German ships were sunk, was on December 8th 1914 (not December 14th, as stated in the article above).
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