Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - Random Rants, Notes and Articles No.2 . .

"It's the veriest kind of rubbish," said Captain Jenkins, "but still the men think they see something. Sailormen are, I think, the most superstitious mortals on earth, and some of them may honestly believe they see something. Outside of the death in the Bay of Biscay and the tragedy off the coast it was one of the finest trips I have ever made to the coast."

The British Consul will hold an investigation into the tragedy on the 'Crown of Scotland,' and will send a report thereon to England. - The San Francisco Call [1244] [1240] 14th December 1900.

1904 - Russians Captured Coal - Suez. Feb. 28. - The steamers laden with coal for Japan, captured by Russian torpedo boat destroyers, are reported to be the British steamer Ettrickdale, from Barryy, February 2 for Sabang ; the British steamer Frankby, from Barry, February 23 for Hong Kong, and the Norwegian steamer Matilda, from Penarth, January 30 for Sasebo.  A dispatch from Suakim, Egypt, February 24, said that captain of the British steamer Lewiston, from Newport for Bombay, reported that he was stopped and examined by Russian torpedo boat destroyers a few miles south of Dae Deleus Island, in the Red sea, who informed him that three British steamers laden with coal for Japan, had been captured by them. - San Antonio Daily Light [1254] [1240] 29th February 1904.

1927 - Nail Through Brain - Cardiff, Wales - A nail has been driven through the brain of a woman whose body was found on the beach at Penarth. - Brownsville Herald [1255] [1240] 31st October 1927.