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A Christmas Party then Tragedy : 30 December 1915

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The band of the Royal Marines played, a film show ran and then tragedy as a  series of explosions ripped through HMS Natal on the afternoon of 30 December 1915 in the Cromarty Firth.  The ship sank within 5 minutes with the loss of 421 lives, some of them being the Captain’s invited guests including a local family and nurses from a nearby hospital…