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'A torpedoing immediately avenged; On December 14, 1917, in the Ionian Sea, the "Chateaurenault" sank by the bow, at 9 o'clock in the morning, narrowly missing a patrol boat docked for rescue; under attack by the German submarine "UC-38" at 8 am.47, after the first torpedo there was time to evacuate almost all of the 1,300 men carried on board, before a second torpedo sent it to the bottom, thirteen minutes later', 1917. From " The Album of the War 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924].