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Tuesday 5 July 2016

British cruiser HMS Calypso captured Russian torpedo boats in the Baltic Sea according to the Dutch newspaper De Tijd dated 28 December 1918

An item dated London, England 27th reported that a British warship captured two Bolshevist torpedo boats of which one was firing at the lighthouse near Reval [Tallinn, Estonia]. Their crews were taken prisoner. The newspaper De West dated 3 January 1919 reported that this warship was the cruiser Calypso.(1)

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1. Laid down at Hawthorn Leslie&Company Limited, Hebburn, England on 17 February 1916, launched on 24 January 1917, commissioned on 21 June 1917 and sunk by the Italian submarine Bagnonili on 12 June 1940. C-class cruiser (Caledon sub-class).