Fanning Island. 7 September 1914. Staff of the Pacific Cable Board and some German Marines from ...

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Fanning Island
Accession Number P02564.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Luscombe, Eric Popham
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Fanning Island. 7 September 1914. Staff of the Pacific Cable Board and some German Marines from the German ship Nurnberg standing on the beach of Fanning Island, after the communications cable had been destroyed. Fanning Island was a small island south of the Hawaiian Islands and was the only relay station between Vancouver Island, BC and Suva, Fiji. The Nurnberg (in the background), attended by a collier landed at Fanning Island, both flying the French flag. They had been sent to Fanning Island by Vice Admiral Count von Spee to destroy the Cable Relay Station, cutting out the British communications network in the Pacific. (Donor J. Luscombe)