Another survivor said the lights went out when the Courageous was struck, and crockery fell about as the ship listed, but everybody was quite orderly,' and some sailors eracke jokes as they swam about, waiting to be picked up.
The Courageous, with a tonnage of 22,500, was one of the earlier airerattcarriers in the British Navy. She was originally completed as a cruiser in 1017, but later was converted into an aiteraft-carrier. She was commis Sioned in August with the Reserve Pleet, and since the War started had been performing good services in pro-feeling merchantmen against U-boat
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