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A three-minute story from this date in the Second World War, narrated, with the sources to check it. Then the battle it belongs to, drawn on the map phase by phase.
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FRI 02 OCT 1942War day 1,128Atlantic
The troopship Queen Mary crossed the Atlantic without an escort. On October 2, off Ireland, she cut through the cruiser sent to escort her.
On October 2, 1942, the British light cruiser HMS Curacoa sank north of Ireland after colliding with the troop transport Queen Mary. The collision was accidental. The Curacoa’s loss was described as one of the Royal Navy’s worst accidental losses of the war. The brief entry in a wartime chronology offered little drama: a liner, a cruiser, a collision, and a ship gone beneath the sea. The circumstances around the voyage made the encounter more than a bare maritime mishap.
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