| Entry Text: | TAVERNER, Nixie. Neptune's Legacy: the Ship and Those Who Sailed in Her, 1934-41. x, 292p., illus. Fleet Hargate : Arcturus Press, 2003. ISBN: 0907322867.
Neptune ran into a minefield off the coast of Tripoli during the night of 19th December 1941, and was lost with all hands except one, thus becoming one of the Royal Navy's most catastrophic disasters of WW2. Some 150 of the casualties were New Zealanders, on board in preparation for the planned handover of the ship to the Royal New Zealand Navy early in 1942. |
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