In the British War Cabinet meeting of 2 May 1917 reported the First Sea Lord admiral Sir J.R. Jellicoe(1) that the steamship Gena (1) was attacked off the British east coast by 2 seaplanes armed with torpedoes. She destroyed one but was torpedoed and sunk by the other plane. The same morning strike the destroyer Derwent (2) a mine and she sunk off Le Havre, France. Most of her crew was saved.
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1. Sunk on 1 May by two Hansa-Brandenburg GW seaplanes of the Torpedostaffel II stationed at Zeeburgge, Belgium. Launched by Turnbull Thomas&Sons, Whitby, England on 15 June 1893 for own account.
2. Hawthorn Leslie Type River Class-destroyer preceded by D-class succeeded by Tribal-class, building ordered under the 1901-1902 Naval Estimates, laid down by R.W. Hawthorn Leslie and Company Ltd., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England on 12 June 1902, launched on 14 February 1903, commissioned in June 1904 and sunk on 2 May 1917 after striking a contact mine laid by the German submarine SMS UC-26.
Only 12 of the 70 officers and men survived.
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