The British Cemetery, Corfu. Memorial and graves of victims of the mining of HM Ships Saumarez & Volage, in the Corfu Channel 1946, after it had been cleared. Albania was later blamed and held to account for re-mining the channel. Some of the first casualties of the Cold War?
On the 22nd of October, 1946, two British ships (the Saumarez and Volage) struck Albanian mines in the sea between the Albanian coast and the Greek island of Corfu, killing dozens of British sailors. The British government, in retaliation, seized several million dollars of Albanian assets. Already precarious Anglo-Albanian relations turned sour, and the tragedy still lingers in the minds of many.
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