ECHOES OF THE WAR AT SEA
THE TRAGEDY OF THE ALNWICK CASTLE A TERRIBLE ORDEAL (By E. F. Knight, in tho London "Morning Post.") The Alnwick Castle, under' tho command of Captain Chare, outward bound for the Cape, was torpedoed when she was about 320 miles the Scilly Isles, and at about the same distance from tho nearest point on the Irish coast and from Cape Finisterre. In that week the German submarines were exceptionally Dusy and sank no fewer than 55 of our ships. -On tho day previous to her own disaster the AlnwicK Castle had picked out of their boats twenty-five of tho crew of the collier-transport Trevose, which had been torpedoed a few hours earlier; and the captain of the Trevose reported that while -he was drifting in his boat he had seen another steamer blown up in the distance. The Alnwck Castle now lr.d on board 100 of her own crew, 14 passengers, and 25 survivors of tho Trevose.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 28 July 1919, Page 6
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163ECHOES OF THE WAR AT SEA Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 28 July 1919, Page 6
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