Image: HMS Amphion (1911)
Description: The ACTIVE class scout cruiser, HMS AMPHION. Leader of 3rd Destroyer Flotilla at the outbreak of the First World War, HMS AMPHION became the Royal Navy's first casualty on 6 August 1914 when she ran into a minefield laid by the KONIGIN LUISE, which the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla had just sunk.
Title: HMS Amphion (1911)
Credit: This is photograph Q 43259 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 2500-06)
Author: Royal Navy official photographer
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