Fatal Collision in Norway. Mail Steamer Sinks. Score of Lives Lost. LONDON
A Christiania message states that a score of deaths, mostly women and children, took place after a collision of the mail steamers Haakonjarl and…
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Letters That Wreck Lives. How Pests of the Pen Are Tracked
More anonymous letters are being written to-day than ever before. This is the alarming verdict of a well-known handwriting and forgery…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Steamer Founders. Crew Missing. One Survivor Washed Ashore. London, July 14
Nineteen members of the crew of the cattle steamer Lismore, a steel screw vessel of 576 tons, owned by the Belfast Steamship Co. Ltd., are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Shipwreck of Japanese Ship. Fearful Loss of Life. TOKIO
A Japanese steamer, Taire Maru, was lost of Cape Notoro last night. There were 138 passengers and 54 of the crew drowned. Eighteen…
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H.M.A.S. Brisbane, the flagship, which is on a cruise in the Islands with other ships of the squadron, grounded on a reef near Port Moresby recently…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →A Century of Lifeboat Work
On March 4th, 1924 the Royal National Lifeboat Institution completed a century of useful work, having been founded on March 4, 1824…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →White Star Liner. Ashore off Lizard Island
The White Star liner Bardie is ashore off Lizard Island, on Manhere Rocks, a few hundred yards from where a ship struck in 1907. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Piracy. German-American Sticks Up Canadian Steamer. Secures 32,000 Cases of Whisky. PARIS
Capt. Jerome Phaff,a German-American, has been arrested on a charge of piracy on the high seas. It is alleged that the steamer Mulhouse sailed…
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The sun was shining brightly and the weather was perfect, as a blast from the whistle of the S.S. Banyule was heard as a warning that she was about…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Strikes Rock. Poet Nicholson Damaged. London, October 23
The Commonwealth and Dominion liner Port Nicholson (8,402 tons) when three miles from Las Palmas sent a wireless message for help…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →A Trawler Wrecked. London
The trawler Anida Islay has been wrecked off the coast of Argyleshire. Ten of the crew were drowned; three were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japanese Ship Wrecked. 52 DEAD, 44 MISSING. Tokio, December 15
It was at first believed that the full complement on the special service vessel Ewanto, which went ashore in a blizzard off Thuruga, was 150 men, but…
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