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eaders with an interest in maritime history might know that the name Royal Oak was chosen for a string of British battleships built between 1664 and 1916. The last of these was the Revengeclass vessel that sunk at Scapa Flow in Scotland’s Orkney Islands after being torpedoed by a German U-boat with the loss of

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