The Archive · 1916

Damage to Other Vessels

London, Feb. 2.

The Dutch mail boat Princess Juliana has been damaged and has been beached at Felixstowe. Apparently she struck a mine. Seventy-nine passengers and the crew have been landed at Harwich. Nobody is missing. The mails have been saved.

Three smacks trawling in the North Sea have been sunk.

London, Feb. 3.

The British str. Belle of France (3,876 tons: Belle Agency, Ld., Liverpool) has sunk, Nineteen Lascars are missing.

The European crow of the Clan Mactavish are safe. The casualties in the fight with the German gunboat were among the Lascars. Feb. 3.

The Franz Fisher, a captured enemy vessel of 987 tons, which was employed as a coasting collier between Hartlepool and London, was sunk by a Zeppelin on Tuesday night. Thirteen of her crew were drowned and three saved by " Belgian steamer.

Rotterdam, Feb. 3.

The Dutch motor-vessel Artemus (3,803 tons) has been torpedoed. Amsterdam, Feb. 3.

The Artemus has arrived at the Hook of Holland in a leaking condition. She reported that she was attacked by a German submarine. The Germans boarded the vessel and demanded that her lights be extinguished.

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