An article from THE REGISTER, a newspaper published in Adelaide, Australia, on Saturday, 20th January 1912. WRECK OF WISTOW HALLTERRIBLE EXPERIENCES Further particulars have been received concerning the wreck of the Wistow Hall. The steamer left Jarrow on Monday. She...
(No. 7535.) “WISTOW HALL” (S.S.). The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. In the matter of a Formal Investigation held at Liverpool on the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 14th days of May, 1912, before STUART DEACON, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate, assisted by Vice-Admiral JOHN...
This article explores how early-20th-century British newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, portrayed Lascar seamen—sailors from South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Africa—as visibly out of place in Britain. A 1905 photograph taken at the Strangers’ Home for...
Wistow Hall The Buchan coast between Slains Castle and Buchanness, with its towering cliffs and jagged rocks has always been an area dreaded by shipping in winter, particularly before the invention of wireless and radar. Slains Castle. now roofless and gaunt, still...
Aberdeen Daily Journal of 19th January 1912: FREDERICK SNOWDON’S FATEFEARED LOSS WITH ALL HANDSWRECKAGE FOUND AT PETERHEAD The finding in Peterhead Harbour yesterday afternoon of a board bearing the name “Frederick Snowden” went to confirm the worst fears which...
