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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…
Subject
- telegraphy
Type of item
- axe
- Axé
- axes (tools)
Date
- 1914
- 1914
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Current location
- Porthcurno
Provenance
- Telegraph Museum, Porthcurno
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/Museu/ProvidedCHO/Telegraph Museum/2002PK037
- 2002PK037
Extent
- Height: 77.0 cm; Width: 28.0 cm; Depth: 6.0 cm
Year
- 1914
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-06-02T12:33:16.990Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-10-18T17:42:02.671Z