Гора́ций Ге́рберт Ки́тченер5 июня 1916 года отплыл с визитом в Россию на крейсере «Хэмпшир». Корабль подорвался на мине установленной, как выяснилось, немецкой подводной лодкой U-75 в ночь с 28 на 29 мая, и Китченер погиб.
HMS Hampshire (1903)Fritz Joubert Duquesne, a Boer and German spy, claimed to have sabotaged and sunk Hampshire, killing Kitchener and most of the crew. According to German records, Duquesne assumed the identity of Russian Duke Boris Zakrevsky and joined Kitchener in Scotland. En route to Russia, Duquesne signaled a German U-boat to alert them that Kitchener’s ship was approaching. He then escaped on a raft just before Hampshire was destroyed. Duquesne was awarded the Iron Cross for this act. In the 1930s and 40s, he ran the famous Duquesne Spy Ring and was captured by the FBI along with 32 other Nazi agents in the largest espionage conviction in U.S. history.
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