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Saturday, 27 June 2020

Austrian monitor on the Danube lost after striking a mine according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag dated 24 August 1914

An item dated Paris, France 24th August referred to the Excelsior received the tiding that near Bazia alongside the Danube beneath Belgrado an Austrian monitor strike a mine and that her whole crew was killed.(1)

Note
1. In October confirmed the Austrian general staff of the monitor Temse after striking a mine, but in her case was not the entirely crew killed. Same ship as the reported by the Excelsior?