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Aktungbby · 05-09-15, 02:49 AM

Strangely compelling reading discover'd while searching for [any] photo of the SS Queen Wilhelmina beached on the beach at Bondi-Carrs( see map- a naval graveyard it seems for several vessels) after being torpedoed by a U-boat http://www.fusilier.co.uk/north_east_northumberland_ww1_great_war_casualties/ww1_index.html

Queen Wilhelmina , 3,590/1898, Furness, Withy & Co, Sunderland, London-reg, Mr E Dickinson, Leith for Fowey in ballast. Hit and damaged 20 miles S by E of Longstone, Outer Farne Is (L - 20 miles N by W of), beached at Bondicar, 1½m SSE of Amble (55.19N, 01.26W), total loss (+L/te/un/wi)

Longstone lighthouse built 1828...a dreadful lonely place; It would appear that u-boats stalked prey near known navigation beacons such as this location or Fastnet as with the Lusitania.

"The island was a bleak situation to endure and the isolation must have been terrible, often storms were so bad as to drive the Lightkeeper's family into the upper rooms of the tower to seek refuge, the waves being so enormous that they covered the living quarters."

05-09-15, 02:49 AM	#105
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,155 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	WWI: Up close and personal Strangely compelling reading discover'd while searching for [any] photo of the SS Queen Wilhelmina beached on the beach at Bondi-Carrs( see map- a naval graveyard it seems for several vessels) after being torpedoed by a U-boat http://www.fusilier.co.uk/north_east_northumberland_ww1_great_war_casualties/ww1_index.html Queen Wilhelmina , 3,590/1898, Furness, Withy & Co, Sunderland, London-reg, Mr E Dickinson, Leith for Fowey in ballast. Hit and damaged 20 miles S by E of Longstone, Outer Farne Is (L - 20 miles N by W of), beached at Bondicar, 1½m SSE of Amble (55.19N, 01.26W), total loss (+L/te/un/wi) Longstone lighthouse built 1828...a dreadful lonely place; It would appear that u-boats stalked prey near known navigation beacons such as this location or Fastnet as with the Lusitania."The island was a bleak situation to endure and the isolation must have been terrible, often storms were so bad as to drive the Lightkeeper's family into the upper rooms of the tower to seek refuge, the waves being so enormous that they covered the living quarters." __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!! Last edited by Aktungbby; 05-09-15 at 03:20 AM.