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THE LOST SHIP

... THE LOST SHIP. There were five battleships of the Deutschland class, and they were completed between 1906 and 1906. On the oulbreat of war the Deutechland clam constituted ,the Second Squadron of the High Sea Fleet, and was based on Kiel. The displacement ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1915
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOW THE SHIP WAS LOST

... HOW THE SHIP WAS LOST. A Jersey correspondent states that he learns from a trustworthy source, and it will be borne out by surviving offiers and members of the crew of the Stella at the official inquiry, that the steamer did not strike on a rock in the ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1899
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GLASGOW SHIP LOST

... GLASGOW SHIP LOST. Lloyd's agent at Valparaiso announces the total loss of the Glasgow sailing ship Pitcairn island by fire in latitude S. 52, longitude W. 90. The captain, second officer, and ten of the crew, who took to the boats, succeeded in reaching ...

Published: Saturday 26 May 1906
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AUXILIARY SHIP LOST

... AUXILIARY SHIP LOST. The Secretary of the Admiralty makes the following announcement : Admiralty. Sunday, March L. His Majesty's mercantile fleet auxiliary Fauvette, Lieut.-Commander Henry J. T. Wilson, R.N.R., has struck a mine off the east coast and ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 1916
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 50 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SHIPS AND LIVES LOST

... SHIPS AND LIVES LOST. Early on Sunday morning the steamer Zephyr foundered off Ilfracombe during • heavy gale, and it is feared that 11 of her crew perished. About 3 a.m. the vessel sprang leak, and a heavy sea washed away the skylight, filling the ugine-room ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1889
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 862 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

5,000 TON SHIP LOST

... 5,000 TON SHIP LOST. The Den of Crombie, 4,949 tons, has been sunk in the Mediterranean. and four members of her crew reached England on Sunday. They had been in open boats over four days, when the Indian mall steamer Caledonia fell in with them 'and ...

Published: Saturday 27 November 1915
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HUGE SAILING SHIP LOST

... HUGE SAILING SHIP LOST. News of the abandonment of the huge ship France in the South Atlantic has caused a gr.•:it sensation on the Tync, which she left on March 11 for Valparaiso. Tugs from Monte Video were sent to search for her, but without success ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1901
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 748 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BRITISH SHIP WRECKED. FIFI'Y LIVES LOST

... BRITISH SHIP WRECKED. LIVES LOST. A least fifty lives have been lost in the wreck of a British liner, the Linia, belonging to the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, of Liverpool. The Lima ran ashore in the Huamblin Passage in the Magellan Straits, and ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1910
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 185 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SHIPPING CASUALTIES. IIItITIIIII MAMBA LOST IN Till ATLANTIC

... SHIPPING CASUALTIES. IIItITIIIII MAMBA LOST IN Till ATLANTIC. The British steamer Rutherglen, New York for Plymouth, foundered on November 9 330 miles west of Fastnet. The captain and crew were saved, and were landed at Csookhaven (County Cork) on Saturday ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1897
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LOST PROPELLER

... LOST PROPELLER. The strange discovery was made at Devonport Dockyard that the battleship Caesar had lost one of her starboard propeller blades. The Caesar had been several mouths undergoing refit, and bad just been moved into dock. Ott the water being ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1907
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 128 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE LOST BATTLESHIPS

... 780 officers and men. The Irresistible cost complete about a million sterling. She was a sister ship of the Formidable and Bulwark. The Ocean was an older ship, and of an inferior type. She was built at Devonport in 1897, and dieplaeed 12,950 tons, her length ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1915
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 238 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE LOST CRUISER

... training ship :or boys. It was the Hawke which was in collision witk the .White Star liner Olympic in the Solent in 1911, when she lost her ram. This was replaced by a si.aight stem. The litigation arising out cf collision occupied the attention of the Court ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1914
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 179 | Page: 2 | Tags: none