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... open for navigation during four or at the most, five months of the year, and although the Hudson's Bay Company have only lost four ships in two hundred , years, t it did not help the scheme when the news of the loss of one of the vessels arrived just at the ...

Published: Friday 11 November 1904
Newspaper: Millom Gazette
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PIRATES' WEEK'S WORK

... PIRATES' WEEK'S WORK. The Admiralty*, weekly statement regarding the amber of ships lost as a result of the German submarine blockade, shows that for, the week ended June 23, with 1,469 oversee vessels of over three hundred tons net of all nationalities ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1915
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE WEEK'S HAM

... THE WEEK'S HAM The weekly statement issued on Satusday by the Press Bureau of ships lost as the result of the German submarine blockade shows that in the week ended June 30 the arrivals and sailings of merchant vessels of over 300 tons at 'United Kingdom ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1915
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WAS THE HINDENBURG SUM A CLAIM THAT A DEBTROVER TORPEDOED HER

... we accounted for the Hindenburg and a cruiser. The Hindeideirg seemed to go up in three pieces. We reckon the Germane lost seterel ships by running on to their own mines. It should be stated that. an Amsterdam correspondent says he has good reason to believe ...

Published: Tuesday 13 June 1916
Newspaper: Penrith Observer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE TOLL OF THE SEA

... seagoing merchant ships lost their lives by drowning, wreck, or other accident. This is one in 254, for the total employed was 242,970. In addition, 124 pawners lost their lives by shipwreck, the combined total being 1,078--3C5 iu sailing ships and 774 in ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1907
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BACK THE GREAT ATTACK

... gisid. at Ira Sriew t=■tNMtb Mat RAISE THE STANDARD of WAR SAYINGS _ -- ---, r,-. 0911 Those were black days . . . proud ships lost . . . Hood . . . ilPpulse Prince of Wales . . .an army pushed back.. an air force fightin g fa itt existence . and for ours ...

Published: Tuesday 28 September 1943
Newspaper: Penrith Observer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 155 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE GREAT BATTLE

... distinctly gave the impression that the British had been worsted to an unpardonable degree, and that while our navy bad lost eleven ships, and possibly seventeen, the Germans had escaped with the loss of only two or three. The result was deplorable. It shook ...

Published: Tuesday 06 June 1916
Newspaper: Penrith Observer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 351 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS

... third mast, evidently belonging to another vessel, has come ashore, leading to the presumption that two vessels have been lost. Ships arriving at Hull report terrible experiences during the gale. The steam trawler I)on had her deck hand washed overboard ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1901
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 853 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

VISIT TO LONDON

... who will spend most of his time in the country and will help the administration to regain the civil character, which it lost, 'ships inevitably, during Mr. Macpherson's prolonged absences from Ireland. Lord French has a high opinion of Kr John Taylor's ...

Published: Tuesday 27 April 1920
Newspaper: Penrith Observer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 942 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DEMAND FOR A NEW POLICY

... nations have suffered. The British Isles, for instance, lost h 7 Meant and sailing vesnels, being •75 per met. of the total of vessels owned. The colonies loth 13, or - 64 per cent. ; America lost 24, or -it per rent. ; Holland only one, or 26 per cent ...

Published: Tuesday 23 October 1900
Newspaper: Penrith Observer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 432 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CAUSE OF TOE DISASTER

... explosion which canoed the loss of the ship was due to an accidental ignition of ammunition on board the ship. There is no evidence to support a suggestion that the explosion was due either to treachery on board the ship or to an act of the enemy. The Bulwark ...

Published: Saturday 19 December 1914
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

!hipping Losses Again HIM

... sunk last week was 24—the same total as in the week before,—while the smaller ships lost number four, as against ten. As the Admiralty do not disclose the amount of tonnage lost it is impossible adequately to compare one week's losses with thew of another ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1917
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 3 | Tags: none