Maritime History

HMS Eurydice (1843)

HMS Eurydice was a 26-gun Royal Navy corvette which was the victim of one of Britain's worst peacetime naval disasters when she sank in a snowstorm off the Isle of Wight on 24 March 1878. Out of a crew of over 300, only two survived.

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See also

• ▸Cocagne
• ▸Lady Godiva (painting)
• ▸German submarine U-161 (1941)

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