File:The sinking of the German cruiser Mainz, 28 August 1914 -19174108.png

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English: Titleː Sinking of the German Cruiser Mainz off Heligoland, 28th August 1914. A photograph taken from the deck of a British cruiser just before the Mainz sank, In the foreground British sailors watch the Mainz on fire. The Mainz is seen on fire, minus two after funnels and a mast, shortly before heeling over and sinking.
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Source ""The Great World War - A History" Volume I, edited by Frank A Mumby. (The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920.)
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This picture published in " The Great World War - A History" Volume I, edited by Frank A Mumby. (The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920).

Earlier picture, cropped differently, was included in The Great War: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict, edited by Herbert Wrigley Wilson and Sir John Alexander Hammerton, published in 1914.

There was no credit on the photo and no credit elsewhere in both books.

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