On This Day - 10 April 1918

Two Italian destroyers collided and sank during a storm in the Mediterranean. The Allied destroyers HMAS TORRENS and HMS REDPOLE were dispatched to rescue survivors. During the rescue operation 18 year old Ordinary Seaman L. R. A. Moore, from TORRENS, was washed overboard and drowned.

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