100 Years Ago Today

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30th November 1922

Around 50,000 people take part in a mass rally by the National Socialists in Munich. The main speaker at the event is Adolf Hitler.


Ship Losses:

Morengen (United States) The 25-gross register ton fishing vessel disappeared without trace in a storm in the Gulf of Alaska somewhere between Cape Spencer and Yakutat, Territory of Alaska. Her entire crew of six perished.
Pelican (Dominion of Canada) The barge ran aground off Sable Island, Nova Scotia. She was refloated and taken in to Sydney, Nova Scotia, where she ran aground again. Subsequently refloated.

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1st December 1922

[December 1st, 1922] "Safety parade, [12/1/22]"


Amnesty protesters.


Ship Losses:

Maplehurst (Canada) The cargo ship foundered in Lake Superior 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) north of the Portage Ship Canal with the loss of eleven of her twenty crew.
Winifred (United Kingdom) The schooner was abandoned and set afire in the Atlantic Ocean 90 nautical miles (170 km) north west of Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Her crew were rescued by Catherine Moulton ( United Kingdom).

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4th December 1922

Ship Losses:

Leytenant Dydymov (Imperial Russian Navy) The auxiliary cruiser foundered 180 nautical miles (330 km) off Shanghai, China with the loss of all 74 people on board.

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5th December 1922

The Parliament of the United Kingdom enacts the Irish Free State Constitution Act, by which it legally sanctions the new Constitution of the Irish Free State.


Ship Losses:

USS B-1 (United States Navy) The B-class submarine was sunk as a target.

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6th December 1922

Ireland becomes officially independent from Britain.


The Irish Free State officially comes into existence. George V becomes the Free State's monarch. Tim Healy is appointed first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, and W. T. Cosgrave becomes President of the Executive Council.


"Chicago, Illinois: Members of the hooded Ku Klux Klan attending church services at the Pacific Congregational Church in Chicago. The Klansmen occupied the pulpit, as shown here."


Ship Losses:

Enigma (United Kingdom) The schooner departed Whitehaven, Cumberland for the Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire. She subsequently foundered in the Irish Sea, wreckage from the ship washed up on the Cumbrian coast on 11 December.
Heinrich Kayser (Germany) The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean north east of Bermuda (38°31′N 62°12′W) with the loss of all hands.
Warda (flag unknown) The sailing ship was wrecked at Antalya, Turkey.

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10th December 1922

The National Assembly of Poland chose the nation's first President, with Foreign Minister Gabriel Narutowicz receiving 289 votes and Maurycy Zamoyski 227 votes. (Narutowicz with Marshal Józef Piłsudski in Warsaw on the 10th).

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11th December 1922

Gabriel Narutowicz leaving the Polish Sejm in Warsaw after being proclaimed president. On December 11 he was sworn in as the first president of the Second Polish Republic.


End of the trial of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters at the Old Bailey in London for the murder of Thompson's husband. Both are found guilty and sentenced to death. (Frederick Bywaters; Edith; and the victim, Percy Thompson, in 1921)


Ship Losses:

Erissos (Greece) The cargo ship ran aground off Martín García Island, Uruguay. She was refloated on 17 December.
Wales Maru (Japan) The cargo ship ran aground at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She was refloated on 16 December.

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12th December 1922

Attempted poisoning on Home Secretary William Bridgeman when a box of chocolates containing arsenic is delivered to him.


Ship Losses:

Dévastation (French Navy) The ironclad battleship sank off Lorient. She was refloated on 18 April 1927.

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13th December 1922

Ship Losses:

Elizabeth Bennett (United Kingdom) The schooner ran aground in the Thames Estuary and was abandoned by her five crew. She was later declared a total loss.
Orteric (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground off Point Arena, California, United States. She was a total loss.

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14th December 1922

"Russian Communists Abolish Santa Claus— Launch a Systematic Program Directed Against Observance of All Religious Holidays", from the New York Times.


Ship Losses:

King David (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground at Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was refloated on 17 December.

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20th December !922

Ivor Novello, noted British actor and Composer of the beautiful ballad "Keep the Home Fires Burning", photographed on his arrival in New York on the S. S. Olympic. He will spend some time with his mother, Mrs. Clara Novello Davies, and will also fill engagements in films here.


Ship Losses:

Anna Diackis (Greece) The cargo ship caught fire and sank at Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
May (United Kingdom) The coaster foundered in the English Channel 15 nautical miles (28 km) south of St. Catharine's Point, Isle of Wight with the loss of two of her eight crew. Survivors were rescued by the trawler Lapwing ( United Kingdom).
Redemirol (France) The cargo ship caught fire at Marseille. She was towed out to sea and scuttled.
Scandinavia (United Kingdom) The coastal tanker was driven ashore at Portland, Dorset. All twelve crew were rescued.
Start (Norway) The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay off Biscay, Spain. Her crew survived.

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21st December 1922

"The German Mussolini", A Man Worth Watching" (Article on Hitler from the Liverpool Post and Mercury)


Ship Losses:

Cornell (United States) The tow steamer left Cleveland, Ohio for Buffalo, New York and vanished. On 26 December a lifeboat was found with the body of one of her firemen aboard, dead of exposure. Lost with all eight hands.
Cornubia (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground on the Mantle Rock in Galway Bay and was abandoned by her crew.
Gordon C. Fudge (United Kingdom) The schooner was abandoned and set afire in the Atlantic Ocean (41°56′N 48°31′W). All six crew were rescued by Menominee ( United Kingdom).
Ogawa Maru (Japan) The cargo ship ran aground and sank in the Hirado Strait and sank with the loss of a crew member.
Vindilis (France) The cargo ship collided with Asturias ( Norway) in the Bay of Biscay and sank.

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22nd December 1922

"The "Big Four" leaders of Europe discussing reparations and allied debts after World War I. Premiers Poincare, France; Bonar Law, Great Britain; Benito Mussolini, Italy; and Theunis, Belgium (l. to r.)."


Ship Losses:

Eleanor (United Kingdom) The cargo ship lost her propeller in the Bristol Channel 6 nautical miles (11 km) off St. Ives Head, Cornwall. Her crew were taken off by Sturdee Rose ( United Kingdom). Eleanor came ashore near the Godrevy Lighthouse and was wrecked.
Meta (Denmark) The schooner was abandoned in the English Channel 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) east of the Shambles Lightship ( United Kingdom). She was later towed in to Portland, Dorset by Albert Victor and Petrel (both United Kingdom).

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23rd December 1922

Ship Losses:

Armistice (United Kingdom) The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 30 nautical miles (56 km) off Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. Her crew were rescued by Homer City ( United Kingdom).
Gustaf (Finland) The cargo ship collided with M. G. Melchior ( Denmark) in the Skagerrak off Moss, Norway and sank. Her crew were rescued.
Maid of Delos (United Kingdom) The cargo ship foundered in St George's Channel off Skomer, Pembrokeshire (51°42′N 5°22′W) with the loss of all 26 crew.

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24th December 1922

Ship Losses:

Imperial (United States) The two-masted halibut schooner departed Juneau, Territory of Alaska, and was never heard from again.