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Friday, 6 February 2015

German bark Heinz seized at Cape Town, South Africa according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad dated 16 September 1914

An item dated Cape Town, South Africa 12th reported that the German bark Heinz arriving after a voyage of 86 days coming from Cardiff, England loaded with coal and cokes was seized as a war prize and brought to Simons Bay. Her captain was unfamiliar with the outbreak of the First World War.