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Came to a tragic end after sinking after a collision with another warship in the Mediterranean on 22 June 1893.

VICTORIA was the flagship of the Commander in Chief Mediterranean Vice Admiral Sir George Tryon in 1893. During Officer of the Watch Manoeuvres off Tripoli, VICTORIA was struck by HMS CAMPERDOWN owing to a mentality amongst commanders in those days that demanded a slavish obedience to the orders, even when the orders were incorrect and unsafe. CAMPERDOWN's armoured bow caused massive damage to VICTORIA and she went to the bottom in minutes, taking with her some 358 members of her Ship's Company including Admiral Tryon. Amongst the survivors was her Second in Command, Commander, later Admiral of the Fleet, John Jellicoe who was trapped in his cabin and was only rescued when a young Midshipman recognised he was missing and helped him out. His experience of this incident was instrumental in the way that Jellicoe later handled the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland.

Is it himself?

Niall McAuley That question remains unanswered! Back at you.

Niall McAuley What age do you think Dr Mannix is in the photo?

Throwing baseball at Polo Grounds on August 1, 1920 at the Yankees-White Sox double header game. How does he compare in age with our photo? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Mannix#/media/File:Australia...

Trove is full of Mannix stuff, but I have had no luck finding a dinner with the Irish President in the 1930s or 1940s. Yet. Daniel Patrick Mannix (4 March 1864 – 6 November 1963) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Mannix adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mannix-daniel-7478

This is amazing!

El sublime artista

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James Michael Curley, elected mayor of Boston in 1914: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Michael_Curley A politician's politician.

rjones0856: Thanks for the additional info. We'll add it to the description next time we update.

In 1914, Curley resigned his seat in Congress to make his first successful run for Mayor of Boston. He was the prototype for the protagonist in Edwin O'Connor's famous political novel, "The Last Hurrah." "In his book, 'The American Mayor,' Melvin Holli explained why Michael Curley was voted the fourth-worst mayor in American history (1999) "A worst-list without Boston's "lovable scoundrel" Mayor J. Michael Curley (1914-17, 1922-25, 1930-33, 1946-49), also known as the "last-hurrah mayor," would be like corned beef without cabbage on St. Patrick's Day. Twice jailed, the unstoppable Curley made more political comebacks than a dying opera diva. A masterful and cynical exploiter of his own people's poverty, he inflamed the ethnocultural conflict of his city and turned Boston city politics into a three-ring circus for half a century. Although, as his biographer Jack Beatty shows, Curley grossly enriched himself at public expense and lived far beyond the means of an honest public servant, financial self-aggrandizement was not really what Curley was about. Curley lived for politics and loved coming in first, no matter which office or honor he ran for. He undoubtedly would have resented coming in fourth-worst in a ten-person field, had he lived to see this expert survey." --Quoted from an internet page