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    Other Post Women and children first

    HMS Birkenhead sank off the coast of South Africa on 26th February 1852. This incident is widely believed to be the origin of the phrase women and children first. The ship was carrying 480 British troops and about 26 women and children. When the ship foundered the soldiers' commander Colonel...
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    HMS Birkenhead Cruiser

    1915 HMS BIRKENHEAD One of a pair of light cruisers originally ordered by the Greek government just prior to the outbreak of the First World War, but taken over by the Royal Navy while still incomplete in 1915. THE BIRKENHEAD CLASS After Greece beat Turkey in the Balkan War of 1912, there...
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