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Thursday, 9 July 2020

Turkish transport Moukadenrei-Nusset lost according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 17 May 1882

An item reported that in the entrance to the Bosporus a Turkish transport was wrecked causing more as fifty victims of the 200 soldiers on board.(1)

Note
1. Another newspaper Zierikzeesche Courant dated 20 May reported that according to tidings from Constantinople the transport Moukadenrei-Nusset was wrecked in the Black Sea. Fifty five men including the master drowned while fifty sailors were rescued although several of them heavily wounded.