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FEARED THAT FORTY HAVE PERISHED. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTOIGUT.) \ (Rec. August 24, 10.45 p.m.) \ London, August 24. Advices received from Bprgen state that the iron screw steamer Folgefonden, 210 tons,' built at Newcastle in 1875,. was stranded, at Skaanevik and sank in threo minutes..', Of 83 passengers, it is foared that 40 were .drowned. 15 bodies havo been recovered.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 284, 25 August 1908, Page 5
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