A Wrench Series postcard that was printed in Saxony. The card was posted in Lowestoft using a ½d. stamp on Friday the 17th. June 1904. It was sent to:
Miss Michel, Cambridge House, Guildford.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"How is the French getting on at Tea-time? I hope you are all well and happy. A. H."
Triton
The statue in the photograph is of Triton. Triton is a Greek god of the sea, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite.
Triton lived with his parents in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea. Later he is often depicted as having a conch shell that he would blow like a trumpet.
Triton is usually represented as a merman, with the upper body of a human and the tailed lower body of a fish. At some time during the Greek and Roman era, Triton became a generic term for a merman in art and literature.
In English literature, Triton is portrayed as the messenger or herald for the god Poseidon.
Lowestoft
Lowestoft is a town in the county of Suffolk. The town is on the North Sea coast, and is the most easterly settlement in the United Kingdom. This means that it is one of the first places to see the sunrise. The town is located on what is known as the Sunrise Coast. The arms of Suffolk also show a rising sun.
It is 110 miles (177 km) north-east of London, 38 miles (61 km) north-east of Ipswich and 22 miles (35 km) south-east of Norwich.
It is situated on the edge of The Broads system and is the major settlement within the district of Waveney with a population of 71,010 in 2011.
Some of the earliest evidence of settlement in Britain has been found in Lowestoft and the town has a long history.
It is a port town which developed due to the fishing industry, and a traditional seaside resort. It has wide, sandy beaches, two piers and a number of other tourist attractions.
Whilst its fisheries have declined, the development of oil and gas exploitation in the southern North Sea in the 1960's led to the development of the town, along with nearby Great Yarmouth, as a base for the industry.
This role has since declined, and the town has begun to develop as a centre of the renewable energy industry within the East of England.
The Sinking of HMS Sparrowhawk
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 17th. June 1904, The Royal Navy torpedo boat destroyer HMS Sparrowhawk struck an uncharted rock at the mouth of the Yangtze and sank. There were no fatalities.
Ralph Bellamy
The day also marked the birth in Chicago, Illinois of the American actor Ralph Bellamy. Ralph died in 1991.
Nikolay Bobrikov
The day was not a good one for Nikolay Bobrikov, because he died at the age of 65 on that day, having been shot the previous day.
Nikolay was a Russian soldier, politician and Governor-General of Finland.
On June 16, 1904, Bobrikov was assassinated by Eugen Schauman in Helsinki. Schauman shot Bobrikov three times and then himself twice.
Schauman died instantly, while Bobrikov, mortally wounded, died at the hospital in the early hours of the following morning. The assassination was described as follows:
"At 11:00 am, in the Senate building on the second floor staircase, an attempt was made on the life of the Finnish governor-general and commander of the troops, Adjutant-General N. I. Bobrikov; an official of the main school management in Finland and a former employee of the Senate, the son of a former senator. Yevgeny Shauman fired three shots at the governor- general. One bullet hit his neck and one was in the stomach. The criminal shot himself on the spot. On being given first aid by a Russian doctor, the governor-general was taken home. Doctors recognized the need for an early operation and the bullet in the abdomen was removed. The wounded man took communion. Many blood clots were; part of the small intestine that had been wounded by the bullet was removed. The wounded man died quietly on the night of the 17th. June."
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