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Posted by tomcervo on June 9, 2025, 15:41:18, in reply to "Acasta was the hero ship of the fiasco"
Ardent was the first to go in, and be sunk. Acasta turned away briefly, then this:
You may think we are running away from the enemy, we are not. Our chummy ship has sunk, the Glorious is sinking, the least we can do is make a show.
The last words of Comd. Charles Glasfurd, captain of Acasta before the destroyer charged at the 2 battlecruisers alone. 
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She ended the sortie of Salmon and Gluckstein, and spared other UK ships from disaster by putting a torp into Salmon.
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