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HMS Hogue

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1902 HMS Hogue Royal Navy

Fate

The Cressy-class Armoured Cruiser Hogue, and her sister ships Cressy and Aboukir, were torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea by the German submarine U-9, on September 22nd, 1914. Three hundred and seventy-five crewmen from the Hogue lost their lives, including William Edward Bowes of Hartlepool.

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