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The Ruins of Zeebrugge, 1914 - 1918

 Item
Identifier: 1000.171.1.24

Scope and Contents

13th Booklet of illustrated postcards featuring these captions: English mine sweepers; pier to which the Germans set fire before fleeing; the Intrepid and the Arthemise sunk in the harbour in view of bottling up German submarines; the Thetis, English torpedo-boat, sunk at the bottling up of the harbour; English convoys and mine sweepers; general view of the Mole (taken from the lighthouse); the extreme end of the mole and the sinking of the steamer, Brussels, of which Fryatt was the heroic captain; the way the German submarines were paralized and how their base was bottled up; suspension bridge connecting the two sections of the breach; and the breach 66 nmetres long and 20 metres wide made by the explosion of an English submariine laden with 10,000 kilos dynamite.

Dates

  • Event: Majority of material found within 1914 - 1918

Creator

Access

This material is open for research use by any registered reader.

Extent

10 items : Set of 10 illustrated postal cards. ; 8.6 x 13.9 cm

Language of Materials

Multiple languages

Immediate Source of Acquisition

I. Marc Carlson

Repository Details

Part of the The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives Repository

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