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, June 3, 2013

Battleship In Collision.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 3, 1913:
Prince of Wales Runs Down a Submarine, but Without Fatalities.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
LONDON, Tuesday, June .30.— A naval disaster was narrowly averted off Portsmouth yesterday, when the battleship Prince of Wales ran down and seriously damaged the submarine C32 during a mimic attack of submarines on two battleships.
The C32, although her conning tower was badly damaged and a considerable part of the superstructure carried away, was able to rise to the surface and return to Portsmouth without assistance.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, June 3, 2013

Battleship In Collision.

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