What the records say
- When
- 16 Mar 1917
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 64.90° N, 0.37° E
- Description
- world War I naval battle
- Naval
- yes
- War
- World War I
Action of 16 March 1917
World War I naval battle
The Action of 16 March 1917 was a naval engagement in which the British armed boarding steamer SS Dundee and HMS Achilles, a Warrior-class armoured cruiser, fought the German auxiliary cruiser SMS Leopard, which sank with the loss of all 319 hands and six men of a British boarding party.
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