Before the Bells Have Faded: The Sinking of HMS Formidable

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Hard cover dust wrapper, 127pp, b&w photos. A little light creasing on dw edges else very good. On New Years day 1915, the aged British battleship HMS Formidable was sunk by the German submarine U-24 - the first sinking of a major capital ship by a U-Boat in the Great War. Intrigued by the listing of four of Formidable's crew on their local war memorial in Crewe, the authors set about reconstructing the Formidable's story. Along with the story of the ship, its sinking, and the life stories of several of its crew, the book lists all 547 seamen who went down with their ship, the wreck site of which is now a protected War Grave.