Unknown Submarine Sinks Steamer Helsinki, December 11
An unknown submarine sank the Estonian steamer, Kassa. Two of the crew were injured and one is missing…
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Refugee Ship Seized More Sinkings by Submarines One Steamer Bound From South Australia London, December 11
A German warship seized a vessel bound for Stockholm with Polish and Jewish refugees aboard. She was sighted off the Swedish coast…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →700 Believed Drowwed Russian Steamer. Sunk New York
It is feared that over 700 including women and children, lost their lives as a result of the sinking of the Russian steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Steamer Torpedoed in Territorial Waters London, December 14
The Admiralty, in confirming the announcement of the British steamer Depford being torpedoed in Norwegian territorial waters, adds, that it is…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Russian Steamer Sunk. Big Loss Near Japan. New York
It is feared that over 700, including women and children, lost their lives as the result of the sinking of the Russian steamer, ludignirka, off…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →550 lives Lost When Russian Steamer Sinks New York, December 14
The Tokio correspondent of American Associated Press states that 550 people, including women and children, lost their lives as a result of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Belgian Steamer Mined London, December 15
The Belgian steamer Rosa was mined in-the North Sea to-day. One of the crew was killed. Fourteen others were landed at a British port, two being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burning Steamer Sinks; Wireless Operator Dead London, December 15
The steamer Stanwood sank in Falmouth Harbor while attempts were being made to put out a fire among the cargo. All the members of the crew…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Amazing Wanderings of German Steamer Berlin, December 18
The Berlin radio tells a remarkable story of the wanderings of the steamer Erlangen, which quitted New Zealand for Australia last in August. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germans Bomb From the Air and Sink Steamer LONDON, December 18
Two German planes machine gunned, bombed and sank the steamer Serenity, eight miles off the east coast. Fishing boats picked up the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →End of the Graf Spee Scuttled at Berlin’s Order Attempt by Crew to Escape Master of German Steamer Arrested Montevideo, December 18
Rather than face certain destruction at die hands of British warships which were waiting just outside territorial waters, the German pocket battleship Graf Spee was scuttled to-day on the instructions of die High Command…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Swedish Steamer Sunk Five of the Crew Killed Estonian Ship's Crew Machine Gunned LONDON
The Swedish steamer Adolf Bratt, bound for Rotterdam from Gothenburg, was sunk by a mine. Five of the crew were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Was German Steamer Carrying Munitions? Lauderdale. December 22
Coastguards are investigating reports that the German freighter Arauca, which fled into Port Everglades from a British cruiser, might have been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →German Submarine Sinks British Steamer on Christmas Day; 14 Lives Lost LONDON, December 26
Without warning a German sub-marine yesterday sank the British steamer Stanholme, 3500 tons, in the North Sea. Fourteen lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Foundered in Storm; All Hands Lost From Two Ships Istanbul, Dee. 26
The steamer Kizilmark, with a crew of 20, and the Astrea, with a crew of 14, foundered during a violent storm in the Black Sea. All hands were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Writs Against German Steamer Miami. December 26
The Asiatic Petroleum Corporation, a British firm, has filed a claim for 114,000 dollars against the German steamer Arauca. The amount is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Sinks in North Sea Four of Crew Lost London, December 28
The steamer Torwood, laden with carbide, sank in the North Sea after an explosion. Seven of the crew of 11 were rescued…
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