Freighter Sinks, 22 Sailors Drown
- Publication
- Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 26 Dec 1912, p. 7
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- Media Type
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Articles
- Notes
- Twenty-two men out of a crew of twenty-seven of the freighter Florence of the Furness line drowned when the steamer which had lost its bearings in a fog was driven aground off St. Shott's Newfoundland. The Florence left Halifax several days ago and was proceeding to St. Johns with a general cargo. The Florence was a British steamship built in 1889 at Sunderland.
- Date of Publication
- 26 Dec 1912
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- Wilmette.News.306171
- Language of Item
- English
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