SUNK IN ATLANTIC.
GERMAN SHIP FOUNDERS. 1000 PASSENGERS ABOARD. BELIEVED TO BE SAVED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 4.46 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Sept. 10. Lloyd's agent at Oporto reports that an S.O.S. signal was received from the German steamer Hammonia, bound from Hamburg to Havana, Cuba, stating that she was sinking in the Atlantic in latitude 41deg. SOmin. north, longitude' lOdeg. 50min. west. Over 1000 passengers were aboard. A Greek vessel proceeded to her assistance. ' A later message states that the Hammonia sank.' It is believed that the passengers were saved. The Hammonia is listed in Lloyd's Register as an iron screw steamer of 1113 tons, owned by tho Hamburg-Danzig line. She was built in 1882 at Kiel.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18192, 11 September 1922, Page 7
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