This week in Falmouth, 100 years ago:
February 4, 1915
Reports that German submarines have been spotted off the Lizard.
February 9, 1915
US liner Wilhemina arrived in harbour from
New York bound for Hamburg with food for non-combatants. She put in with the excuse that she wanted a new lifeboat. This is the ship whose cargo has been consigned to Hamburg as a test case as to whether food for non combatants is contraband.
February 12, 1915
Reports that two or three submarines spotted in the bay.
February 13, 1915
Four-masted barque Andromeda wrecked near Killigerran, one life lost. Vessel on passage from Tacoma to Falmouth for orders laden with wheat.
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