BATTLESHIP STRIKES.
HANNIBAL'S LUCKY ESCAPE. (By.'.pnlagraiilWrow Asßoclallon.-OoDrrlshl.l London, Augusfc 22. TJio battleship Hannibal—l4,9oo tons, completed in 1807 at a cost of £906,799— while executing a gun-laying test off Babbicombe, on the coast of Devonshire, scraped a reef. | ' Several plateß wore torn off, and tho boiler-room and oil fuel storage tanta were flooded. The vessel will bo clocked' at Devonport. , , But for the high tide running, and tho fact that the ship was going at full speed, tho damage would have been" much' greater. A COSTLY BUSINESS. (Iteo. August 23, 9.5 p.m.) London, August 23, Tho ropairs to tho battleship Hannibal will | ocoupy four mouths, i [The Hannibal, lyhich oost ,£000,799, is ranked as a third-class battleship. The Agamemnon, which gioumjed the other day, but was got off without muph apparent damage, is a first-class battleship, ranking (with her sister, the Lord Nelson) next to the Dreadnoughts. The British taxpayer has JC1,C51,289 sunk in her; or over 2\ millions in the two hulls which have recently been so dose to disaster.]
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 594, 24 August 1909, Page 5
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170BATTLESHIP STRIKES. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 594, 24 August 1909, Page 5
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