Wreck of the Warren Hastings
18 January 2022
125 years ago this week, on 14 January 1897, the troopship Warren Hastings sank in the Indian Ocean. An Old Wellingtonian, Lt Col M C B Forestier-Walker, was widely hailed as the “hero” of the event because of the calm way he and his troops behaved. Launched in 1893, the steel-hulled Warren Hastings was claimed […]
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