One 500lb bomb lodged in the ship’s engine room detonated while being defused, breaking the back of the Type 21 frigate. On May 29 prime minister Georges Pompidou positioned tanks on the outskirts of Paris, fearing revolution in 1982 HMS Antelope sank in San Carlos Water during the Falklands conflict after coming under Argentine air attack the previous day. There were three survivors in 1968 Charles de Gaulle, the president of France, warned TV viewers of the risk of civil war after three weeks of social unrest and strike action by ten million workers. In 1877 Bertie, the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) arranged for the socialite Lillie Langtry to be seated next to him at a dinner party (with her husband at the far end of the table) – she was the prince’s mistress until she became pregnant by another lover in 1880, but remained friends in 1941 HMS Hood sank after being hit by shells fired from the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in the Denmark Strait, with the loss of 1,415 lives.
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