Template:Did you know nominations/HMS Cicala

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 18:40, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

HMS Cicala

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... that HMS Cicala was commanded at the 1941 Battle of Hong Kong by a one-armed veteran of the 1916 Battle of Jutland? "had first seen action in the 1914-18 War - as had its present captain, Lieutenant Commander John Boldero, as a fifteen-year-old at Jutland ... losing his right arm in a collision on a night exercise in April 1941" from: Luard, Tim (1 December 2011). Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan Chak’s Christmas Day Dash, 1941. Hong Kong University Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-988-8083-76-3.
- ALT1:... that HMS Cicala survived 60 aerial bombing attacks during the 1941 Battle of Hong Kong before being badly damaged and scuttled? "over the previous two weeks she had proved a constant menace to the Japanese and had survived more than sixty bombing attacks ... Cicala finally succumbed ... abandoned to the sea ... MTB 09 hastened the sinking with depth charges" from: Luard, Tim (1 December 2011). Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan Chak’s Christmas Day Dash, 1941. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 60–61. ISBN 978-988-8083-76-3.

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Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 07:42, 14 October 2021 (UTC).

New article is 5,512 characters long and nominated one day after creation. No copyvios detected (AGF books which can't go through Dup detector re. close paraphrasing issues). Article is well-sourced. Main hook is 115 characters long (ALT1 is 127); both are under 200 character max. and are interesting. Refs 7 (verifying the hook and ALT 1) is a reliable source. QPQ done. Looks good to go! —Bloom6132 (talk) 09:01, 16 October 2021 (UTC)