SUBMARINE ACTIVITY.
BRITISH STEAMERS SUNK. CREWS LANDED SAFELY. (Received November 28, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, November 27. A German submarine has sunk the Brit , ish steamer Malachtie, near Havre. The crew, were landed at Southampton. The steamer Primo was also sunk, off Cape Anti'fer, and the crew landed at Fecamp. . • . , [The Malachite was a three-masted steamer of 718 tons gross register, built at Glasgow in 1902, and owned by W. Robr . crtson, Glasgow being hen port of registry. The Primo was a steamer of 1366 tons gross "register, built at Stockton in 1898, jaifd Owned by the Pelton Steamship Com- ; j jpiany, t'he registered port' Newcastle, /" , P«sqamp is a watering-placeand French 'seaport in thie•' English Channel, at the , inbuth. of the River Fecamp, about 27 ,'miles north-east of Havre.] .
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 253, 28 November 1914, Page 9
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128SUBMARINE ACTIVITY. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 253, 28 November 1914, Page 9
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