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A NEW BRITISH ISLAND

... Tribune has annexed Aves Island and hoisted the British flag there. Aves Island is a small barren islet in the east of the Caribbean Sea, 147 miles west Dominica. A New York correspondent telegraphs that little is known there about the Aves Island, but it ...

Published: Monday 15 August 1904
Newspaper: Northern Daily Telegraph
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 71 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SEEKING A PIRATE S HOARD

... tic passage from this side. Bnt has every confidence in her seaworthiness. The Catherine’s destination is island in the Caribbean 8 in search of gold and jewels to the value of 61,200,000. which, it is said, were buried by the notorious pirate Latrobe ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1906
Newspaper: Northern Daily Telegraph
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BLACKBURN PUBLIC LECTURE,

... evening, his subject being * The Panama Canal.” After men(ioninér that the total length of the canal from deep water in the Caribbean Sea to deep water in the Pacific Ocean was practically 50 miles, Captain Benson said a hole deep enough to bury twelve pyramids ...

Published: Wednesday 04 February 1914
Newspaper: Northern Daily Telegraph
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A SEARCH FOB TREASURE

... at Douglas upon the ketch Catherine, in which Captain Small, of Liverpool, and crew four men propose to proceed to the Caribbean Sea in search of the treasure said to have been hidden about one hundred years ago by Latrobe, a notorious French pirate ...

Published: Thursday 09 August 1906
Newspaper: Northern Daily Telegraph
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 134 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A HISTORIC WARSHIP LOST

... the Kearsage, has been claimed by the sea after having been afloat thirty-three years. During a somewhat heavy fog in the Caribbean Sea late on Friday night last she ran on to what is known as the Uoncador Reef, and shortly afterwards began to break up ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1894
Newspaper: Blackburn Standard
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE WIDER WICKET: AH ALTBBHATITB

... had nude deep stndv of that and believed iU eficisncy i. •etren was greatly overestimated. The American naval manmavras in Caribbean, waters wets an object-lesson to Us Oerasan Emperor. At Uses manoeuvres there had been present flfty-foar vessels, including ...

Published: Monday 30 March 1903
Newspaper: Northern Daily Telegraph
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 859 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BRITISH WEST INDIES

... to be presumed that (^reat Britain would consent to part with ai! her West Indian possessions. The talk about making the Caribbean Soa an American lake sounds ra'hrr grand, but it will probably be a good while before j it is reft Used. Other Powers than ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1899
Newspaper: Blackburn Standard
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 521 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

FISHERMAN HUNTED BY SHARES

... picked up by the steamer on October 26 off Martinique in a small skiff in which he had been drifting hvelessly lost in the Caribbean Sea sided September 26. Chief officer Meethan, on the bridge of the Ikiria, spied a little boat at seven in the morning, ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1911
Newspaper: Northern Daily Telegraph
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 521 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BRITISH EXPEDITION SETg

... mMAay or may not prove to be the mysterious Atlinii. of hoayy traditiom. The hoped-for tici .y, trove is located in the Caribbean Sea, ney. ¢, coast of Yucatan, the most esuthern pros iy, of Mexico, for which Mr Meckham ani awociates are now headed. On ...

Published: Monday 09 September 1912
Newspaper: Northern Daily Telegraph
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 935 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO A CITY

... against it. is announced Washing ton that a naval and coaling station has been acquired the shores of the Chinqui Lagoon, the Caribbean side of Costa Rico, said to be one of the finest harbours in the world, with an abundant supply of good coal in the neighbourhood ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1898
Newspaper: Northern Daily Telegraph
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 257 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NEILL THE POISONER A RESPITE GRANTED

... News wired from Baltimore states that a disastrous hurrirane visited the islands of Old Providence and St. Andrew's, in the Caribbean Sea, on %th. Houses were blown down and whole eccoanut tations devastated. lirea were 100,000 persons were rendered homele-s ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1892
Newspaper: Northern Daily Telegraph
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 286 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SAVED BY MUSIC

... barque Pallas, from Buenos Ayres to Gulf of Mexico ports. wag wrecked on October 13 at Grand Cayman, a little island in the Caribbean Bea to the north-west of Jamaica. Two of the sailors. endeavouring to keep up the spirits of their companions, got a violin ...

Published: Monday 14 November 1910
Newspaper: Northern Daily Telegraph
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 377 | Page: 2 | Tags: none