Charles Pengelly
One of the most sensational incidents in the early days of the Great War was the sinking of the battleship Audacious in Lough Svvilly. While the second battle squadron was carrying out firing practice on October 26, 1914, the Audacious struck a mine, and later sank.
Charles Pengelly was on the Audacious at the time of the disaster. He had a unique association with the ship. Coming from a Cornish sea-faring family, he was employed on the Audacious while she was building, and went down the slip-way in her at the time of her launch, for which he was suspended from work for a fortnight as a punishment! He was in the ship while she was making her trials, and he was in her when she was mined.