A British Schooner Taken
Two of Her Crew Killed and the Ship Taken Into Port by a Spanish Gunboat
A brief but violent incident on the high seas near Cuba, in which a Spanish gunboat fired on a British smack and seized it, hints at the wider tensions the Cuban insurrection was creating for neutral shipping.
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Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Page 1
1 min readKEY WEST, Fla., April 20.
It has been reported here by the master of the British schooner Gertrude, which arrived from Nassau today, that a British smack which plies regularly between Long Key and Nassau was fired upon by a Spanish gunboat and two of her seamen killed and the schooner taken to Santiago de Cuba by the gunboat. Great excitement exists at Nassau over the affair.
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