GUARDIAN/ Ninety years ago, in 1918-19, three British warships, the cruiser HMS Cassandra, and two sloops, the HMS Myrtle and HMS Gentian, struck mines near the island of Saaremaa, in Estonian waters while involved in thwarting the takeover of the Baltic States by Germans and Russians. Using sophisticated sonar, their hulls have been just been discovered by an Estonian minesweeper.
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