On this day in 1940, the Minesweeper HMS SPHINX becomes first Royal Navy ship lost to air attack when she was bombed and machine gunned by the Luftwaffe off Scotland with the loss of 54 Sailors. Full story on the links.
http://www.halcyon-class.co.uk/sphinx/sphinx_1940.htm
https://www.scottishshipwrecks.com/the-bombing-and-eventual-loss-of-hms-sphinx/
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