The air battle was watched by people from Abbott's Cliff, Dover, where British coal convoy CW8 took heavy losses from German dive bombers.
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The second hand and helmsman managed to squeeze the deck-boy out through a window, but they could not follow and went down with the ship.
There are over 360 English Channel shipwrecks and other diveable marks to explore around the Kent coast including Dover and Folkestone.
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Christened to the band playing Rule Britannia in 1897, HMS Flirt sunk bravely firing her guns on the enemy for the honour of her country in 1916.