DISASTERS AT SEA.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 949, 17 October 1910, Page 7

DISASTERS AT SEA.

TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST. . By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. ' (Reo. October 16, 5.5 p.m.) 1 Paris, October 15. ; The British . steamer , Peveril. collided with and sank -the steamer .Ville .de Rochefort,; off Noirmoutier Island, near the mouth of the River Loire, on. tho French, coast. .. . .. Of the Ville do Rochefort's crew of twenty-3ix, twenty-five were • drowned. . The, Peveril' is ail iron screw-steamer, of .1687 tons.grossi owned by Messrs. Maclay. and 'Macintyre,' of-Glasgow. 1 She was built in 18S2. 'V > ■ '.. -■ •„ The Ville de-Rochefort is of . 2063 tons .gross, sand is- owned by the .French North'em Steamship Company.- She is a year older than, the Peveril. . : BRITISH STEAMER LOST., London, October 11. . -The steamer; Cranford, a vessel of [ 2293 tons gross, owned 'by the,' London and Northern. Steamship Company, has been lost ■ at Hartlepool, \ with .a >crew of twenty. ~. ' ■ ■.- Six bodies have been washed ashore. . ANOTHER WRECK FEARED. V (Rec. Octobor 17^- 0.35 a.m.) t: London, October 16. .It.'.is fearedithat, the Noi-wegian!ship Baldowic - lias been wrecked on ,the coast of Swedeii. ■. ." •'■' ;