A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Battleship Goes Aground

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 16, 1912:
New Wyoming Sticks on Sandbar on Trial Trip Near Wilmington, Del.
WILMINGTON. Del., July 15.— The new battleship Wyoming, which left Philadelphia on her trial trip this morning is stuck on a sandbar at Three Quarter Point, about a mile and a half below this city.
Government tugs have gone to her assistance. Her Captain reports no damage done, and it is expected that she will proceed with the high tide.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, July 16, 2012

Battleship Goes Aground

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