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FAILURE OF THE PIRATES

... campagn in the naive behef that ther could create # submarnne base at Zeebrugge or Antwerp, enabling them to replace their lost ships ramdly The establishment of ench a hase at Antwerp wasz not toleratad by Holland, while Zesbrugge hac heen shattered hy ...

Published: Saturday 13 March 1915
Newspaper: Farnworth Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

fi,, skipper's wife

... lasted all the way. And where the Birkenhead went down, In eighteen fiih wo. ‘We ran upon the selfsame rocks, And lost the whole ship's erew ! And 1 alone was left 'long with The ekipper and his wife, Twas then | saw the thing that 1 Remember all my ...

Published: Saturday 11 March 1916
Newspaper: Farnworth Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 422 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Page 20. MR. TOM WING IN BOLTON. MOKE LUXURIOUS LIVING THAN IN PEACE TIME

... the object ol them? The object was to ent off this icland from the rest of the world. That is the philosophy. We had lost numbers of ships with mililons of capital enguifed. He went on to way that the people to-day were eating more than in peace time. There ...

Published: Friday 05 May 1916
Newspaper: Farnworth Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 577 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

WAR&ALCOHOL CHURCH VESTRIES. ALLIES' NOTABLE 'ST. PAUL'S TANGLE. SUCCESSES. WHOLE BATTALIONS WIPED OUT. ..

... leaving ports—l. 234, compared with 1.559 in the previous week. The gross tonnage of the five ships lost last week was only 7.%04. In the previons week six ships of a gross tonnage of 20,057 were sunk by the submarines. Exit the Polite Pirate.” The German ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1915
Newspaper: Farnworth Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1102 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SHIP LOST WITH CREW OF 77

... SHIP LOST WITH CREW OF 77 The Glaszow ship. “ Castle Rock,” has heent given np as lost, with capfain and crew of . She laft Sydmey for Seattle, Washington, in September. Mr. Birrell, the Trich Secretary, who is in Dublin, leaves to-day for the South of ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1908
Newspaper: Farnworth Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 66 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Passenger Ship Wrecked AUSTRALIAN bTIIARIER LOST, WITH IX PERSONS

... Passenger Ship Wrecked AUSTRALIAN bTIIARIER LOST, WITH IX PERSONS the donor said: Heinsist. andm i -.-- - parte good iSet severiwee. Tr.n th• i ranee t he ' m g eeeedue inter -S ta te decayed or horse said: Has. .ed sat anon and thought • • ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1911
Newspaper: Farnworth Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1253 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Passenger Ship Sunk. 69 LIVYES LOST. MIDNIGHT DISASTER IN A FOG

... Passenger Ship Sunk. 69 LIVYES LOST. MIDNIGHT DISASTER IN A FOG. A San Francisco telegram of Monday says:i— A collision occurred at midnight on Saturday between the steamer “ Columbia,” telonzing to the Oregon Railway and Navigation Coempany, and the ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1907
Newspaper: Farnworth Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 490 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

GIVEN UP AS LOST

... GIVEN UP AS LOST The Board of Trade at Grimshe ofhcialle announced to-dav that Mr. G. F. Sieight. J.P., owner of the trawler ** Recto,” had given the vessel up as lost. She left Grimsbhy for a fishing vovage in the North Sea on l'ebruary 21st, and has ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1915
Newspaper: Farnworth Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LIVES LOST IN THE FOG

... LIVES LOST IN THE FOG. In the general fog which prevailed on Monday and on Sunday several lives were lost and traffic by road and rail was considerably impeded. At the ports shipping was carried on with difficulty. The Chadderton police on Monday recovered ...

Published: Saturday 05 December 1908
Newspaper: Farnworth Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 206 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Disasters to Shipping. BRITISH AND FRENCH WARSHIPS WRECKED. TRAIN FALLS INTO RIVER. OVER 100 LIVES LOST. °

... Disasters to Shipping. BRITISH AND FRENCH WARSHIPS WRECKED. TRAIN FALLS INTO RIVER. OVER 100 LIVES LOST. ° —— A railway dieaster resembling the Tay Bridge 1 catastrophe of December 28, 1878, occurred on Tuesday morning at Dover, Oklahoma, on the Chicago ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1906
Newspaper: Farnworth Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 287 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ON LOST SHIP. Bolton R.AM.C. Members Who Were Aboard the “ Britannic.” RELATIVES’ CONCERN

... ON LOST SHIP. Bolton R.AM.C. Members Who Were Aboard the “ Britannic.” RELATIVES’ CONCERN. How many Boltonians are sorving their coun. try at sea it is difficult to sav. Their proportion, compared with local enlistments for the numerous branches of war ...

Published: Friday 24 November 1916
Newspaper: Farnworth Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 255 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HOW NELSON LOST HIS ARM

... HOW NELSON LOST HIS ARM Although nearly everybody must koow that the famous Admiral Lord Neison lost one of hw arms in a battle, they may not all know how it weourred, so 1 will tell you. The Enghsh sailors went 1o atiack the suong fortress of Santa Crug ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1912
Newspaper: Farnworth Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 281 | Page: 7 | Tags: none