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Cocos Island Axe
Wooden handled axe used by the German raiding party when they attacked the telegraph station on Cocos Island during World War One. In 1914, disguised as a merchant vessel, the German warship 'Emden' landed a party of soldiers on the Cocos Islands. The soldiers destroyed telegraph equipment using this axe and cut the undersea cables that linked Britain to Australia. One telegraph worker, however, h…
Suġġett
- telegraphy
Tip ta' oġġett
- axe
- Axé
- axes (tools)
Data
- 1914
- 1914
Istituzzjoni fornitriċi
Aggregatur
Dikjarazzjoni tad-drittijiet tal-midja f'dan ir-rekord (sakemm mhux speċifikat mod ieħor)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Post attwali
- Porthcurno
Provenjenza
- Telegraph Museum, Porthcurno
Identifikatur
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/Museu/ProvidedCHO/Telegraph Museum/2002PK037
- 2002PK037
Limitu
- Height: 77.0 cm; Width: 28.0 cm; Depth: 6.0 cm
Sena
- 1914
Pajjiż fornitur
- Europe
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