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Sunday 8 December 2019

German bark Möwe nearly destroyed telegraph cable off Anjer, Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Java-bode dated Monday 28 May 1888

An item reported that when the German bark Möwe left Anjer, Dutch East Indies on Friday morning she collided with the outside buoy of telegraph cable which cable she towed with her about a quart mile in north east direction the sea lucky enough without damaging the cable.