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

• ▸Deadliest single days of World War I
• ▸Iksal
• ▸German occupation of the Channel Islands

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