re: #240 Decatur Deb
Except at the Battle of Mers-el-Kebir, when they sacrificed 1300 sailors for no other reason than to prove they were willing to.
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Bretagne was not the first capital ship lost to a magazine explosion, not the last. But it was one of the few cases where there is a photo of the explosion. One of the ships firing on her, HMS Hood was lost in the same way less than 1 year later.