FLOATING MINE MENACE.
LOSSES IN'NOBTH SEA.
The Secretary to the British Admiralty states that it is unfortunately true that there are a large number of floating mines in the North Sea, which is inevitable so long as the mine areas for the clearance of which Great Britain is not responsible remain in existence.
During the last two months, writes a correspondent from London, 108 mines were destroyed around the coasts, and eight destroyers are engaged on the work. Survivors of the crew of the fishing boat Ocean Crest U. were brought to Yarmouth, .and reported that their vessel struck a mine Mid sank off Cromer. William' Elijah .Shreeve, the skipper, went down with the vessel, and one other memoer of the crew was lost, faring been killed by the explosion or drowned. All the other hands were niched up, A motor vessel, called the Royal Swan, struck a drifting mine off the coast of Ireland and was blown up. Four men were killed. This is the second mine casualty off the Irish coast in a few days.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17371, 19 January 1920, Page 6
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