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 BIRKENHEAD DRILL A,trooship The Birkenhead was a trooship In February, 1851. it was carrying s and their families to South Africa. There were six hundred and thirty people on the ship, including one hundred and seventy women and children. The soldiers young and inexperienced. The officers were few and most of them were also y inexperienced Struckagainst Rock: When the ship was forty miles away from Cape Town im against a hidden rock and was split into two parts. This rock was not shown in a the maps of the sea. The ship was very badly damaged and the front half soon sanki the water. The remaining half portion, where all the people assembled, was still fo on the water. Three lifeboats There were only three life boats in useful condition, each of which could carry only sixty passengers. The other boats were damaged or destroyed. In the way only one hundred and eighty people could be saved. The others were to lace.com death by drowing and worst because the ship could not la...