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Saturday 19 March 2016

Austrian torpedo boat No.19 sunk due to mine according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 19 August 1914

An item dated London, England 18th referred to a telegram received the same day from Rome reporting that the Austrian torpedo boat No. 19 hit a mine in the entrance in the harbour of Pola [Or Pula, nowadays in Croatia] and sunk. Just one sailor was saved.