100 Years Ago Today

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4th May 1922

"Windsor, England: Goodbye, Daddy. Many pathetic scenes were witnessed at Windsor, England, recently when the Irish guards left to take up garrison duty at Constantinople."


Ship Losses:

Turenne (France) The cargo ship ran aground at Mahdia, Tunisia. She was refloated on 10 May.

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5th May 1922

Policeman nabs man wearing 'iron' suit (Iron Man?!)


Ship Losses:

B. R. Tower (United Kingdom) The schooner was wrecked on a reef north east of Grand Turk. Her crew were rescued.

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7th May 1922

Ship Losses:

Fear Not (United Kingdom) The cargo ship foundered at Clackland Point, Isle of Arran, Buteshire. Her crew were rescued.
Josephine (United States) The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was towed to Southport, North Carolina and was beached.
Kiang Tung (China) The cargo ship was destroyed by fire whilst on a voyage from Shusi to Hankow.

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11th May 1922

Photo of General John T. Thompson demonstrating to an interested crowd of officials his new invention, the anti-bandit gun, an automatic rifle weighing a mere seven pounds and firing 120 shots per minute.


Ship Losses:

Arbeeco (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground on Renew's Rock, off the coast of Newfoundland and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.
Constantinos Pateras (Greece) The cargo ship ran aground at Carromeiro, A Coruña, Spain. She broke in two the next day and was a total loss.

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12th May 1922

The King of England at the cemetery of Notre Dame de Lorette.

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13th May 1922

Ship Losses:

City of Charleroy (United Kingdom) The cargo ship collided with Bittern ( United Kingdom) at Antwerp, Belgium and was beached. She was refloated later that day.

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14th May 1922

Ship Losses:

Fear Not (United Kingdom) The cargo ship foundered at Clackland Point, Isle of Arran, Buteshire. Her crew were rescued.
Josephine (United States) The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was towed to Southport, North Carolina and was beached.
Kiang Tung (China) The cargo ship was destroyed by fire whilst on a voyage from Shusi to Hankow.

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15th May 1922

Ship Losses:

Dragoon (United Kingdom) The cargo ship sank at Hennebont, Morbihan, France.
Olive (United States) During a voyage from Eagle to Iditarod, the 50-gross register ton scow was crushed by ice and lost on the Iditarod River in the central Territory of Alaska. Her crew of six survived.

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16th May 1922

The world's largest ship, the White Star liner RMS "Majestic" completed its maiden voyage, reaching New York Harbor from Southampton in 5 days 14 hours 45 minutes.

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17th May 1922

The Hardings at the National Horse Show.


Metropolitan (Washington, D. C.) police at National Horse Show.

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18th May 1922

Warren G. Harding became the first U.S. president to be heard on the radio when the NOF radio station at NAS Anacostia near Washington, D.C. broadcast live coverage of Harding's speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.


Ship Losses:

Lothar Bohren (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground at Port-de-Bouc, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She was refloated on 22 May.

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19th May 1922

Ship Losses:

Middlesex (United States) The cargo ship was wrecked at Portland, Maine.

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22nd May 1922

Northern Ireland: MP William Twaddell is killed by gunmen in a Belfast street.


"British Liner Sunk In Fog: Many Lives Lost."


Ship Losses:

Conestoga (Canada) The cargo ship caught fire and sank in the St Lawrence River.
Emily Eveson (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground on the Clougne Rock, on the south east coast of Alderney, Channel Islands and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.
Iro (Greece) The cargo ship caught fire at Salonica and was scuttled to extinguish the fire.
St. Patrice (United Kingdom) The cargo ship came ashore west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued by the Lizard Lifeboat.

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23rd May 1922

Ship Losses:

Andree (United Kingdom) The cargo ship collided with H. F. Alexander ( United States) at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was beached. She was refloated on 27 June.

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24th May 1922

"The Battle of San Lorenzo" - Fighting breaks out in Rome between Fascists, Communists, and the police during the reinterment procession of World War I hero Enrico Toti.


The first attempt to fly around the world begins as British Army Major Wilfred T. Blake, Royal Air Force Captain Norman Macmillan, and British Army Lieutenant Colonel L. E. Broome depart Croydon, England, in the modified Airco DH.9 "G-EBDE".