Yes - HMAS Canberra was a larger ship with a larger crew, but they had time to abandon ship and USS Patterson and USS Blue were able to take them aboard. That made all the difference in terms of casualties.
7 posted on 07/13/2015 2:59:16 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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14 posted on 07/13/2015 3:53:18 PM PDT by rlmorel
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