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100 years to the day that three Chatham Port Division Cruisers were sunk, the people of Kent gathered to remember them.
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Chatham Memorial
Early in the morning of 22 September 1914, three Chatham Division cruisers, HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy (the Three Cruisers), were spotted by a single German submarine, U9, while on patrol off the Hook of Holland. In little under two hours, U9 had torpedoed and sunk all three ships.
