BRITISH WRECKS IN OCTOBER.
The number and net tonnage of British vessels respecting the loss of which reports were received at th« Board of Trade during the month of October. 1914. and tho number of lives lost, are as follows:
Net Number, tonnage. .Lives lost Sriling . . 16 97] 11* Sleum . . 4!) 55.7T91 123J
T~tal . . Co 59 750 131. *I Thuli'.iGf three lives lost iu a sailizif vcs=el svnk by a mine. tlarl'.din - tn-o.'iy-tbree of 3G.571 t-iis. sunk bv German wavsh."s, and six pi 87-22 tons eunk by mines. JlKc'.vdinjr th'rty-one lives lest in stev mors sink by mines. v The above table is a record of "reports received " in the month, and not of wrecks which occurred during the month. Many of tho reports received in October relate to casualties whicE. occurred in previous, months. The figures include the losses of tea sailing vessels, o\ 565 tons, and eight steamers, of 4030 ton, belonging, to British possessions abroad, involving the loss of the lives of nine persons, of whom eight were lost in sailing vessels and one in a steamer.
Casualties not resulting in total lo?s ,f V ; ?; :- .!;.. ~ £',,„ )', v ) n ~j. ]jy sUC Jj <:ii.-:iia'Lie.>. nr !•..■■: ;r.;'i;:ticd.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 1124, 18 December 1914, Page 4
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197BRITISH WRECKS IN OCTOBER. Star (Christchurch), Issue 1124, 18 December 1914, Page 4
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