VATERLAND CAUSES DAMAGE.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14980, 29 May 1914, Page 7

VATERLAND CAUSES DAMAGE.

(Received May 28th, 7.15 p.m.)

NEW YORK, May 27,

Tho Hamburg-Amerika liner Vaterland, when departing, overturned a cci* barge. Sho dragged two tug boats f ron> their l>erths when backing out. auo nearly crashed into two largo passenger steamers. She then swung towards tho pier, and her screws, churning the water, sucked it out from under the pier,' this causing the hawsers of the two steamers to snap, and' forcing them against the pier-bead, smashing their owji rails .and also tlio pier rails.

The Vaterland proceeded on her voyago after causing £6000 worth oi damage.

The Vaterland. wJiich is tho larpoat vessel in tho world, was starting on her first voyage from New York. She .-a 950 ft long. 100 ft wide, and of 58,000 tons. The suction caused by these ftiK&'Jtic vessels is a well-recognised danger, and the above is not the first misnr o. f tho kind in New York harbour. On one oocasion the Olympic, while passing a large moored : liner somo distance away, at Southampton, eet m> such a movement in the water that the mooring lines broke. The collision between the Olympic and H.M.S. Hawkc is believed to have been due to the liner'e suction.