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Friday 14 June 2019

False alarm about loss of German steam corvette SMS Stein according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad dated 31 January 1885

An item dated Athens, Greece the 28th reported that near Zante a bottle was salvage out of the water containing a letter dated the 20th reporting that the German frigate of war Stein was lost at sea. The fate of her crew was yet unknown. The edition dated 1 February however referred to a telegram of the German admiralty shat she was lying safe at Trieste, Italy.

Note
1. At that moment served in the German screw steam corvette SMS Stein, laid down at the shipyard of Vulcan AG, Stettin, launched on 14 September 1879, completed on 3 October 1880 but was not earlier as in 1920 sold to be broken up.