Of the 1309 passengers and crew on board only 150 people survived. Four other ferries sank in the same typhoon, making a total loss of life of 1430. (26 September 1954)
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Newcastle Prison
Carliol Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.
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Wednesday 10th of August 1910 (-) — Murderer John Dickman is executed by hanging by John Ellis. It has been suggested that Dickman was also guilty of two previous murders, of Caroline Mary Luard at Ightham, Kent in 1908 and Hermann Cohen in Sunderland in 1909.