ARMED LINER WRECKED
OCEANIC TOTALLY LOST :•.•'• ■'■ -..' I ■ ':■'■' '.-'.': ■■■'• ;.;(Eeo; September 11, 0.30 a.m.) ; ;-.'■-.-'London, September 10, morning. Tlip White Star liner Oceanic, a morpliant, cruiser, is a total wreck on the ?oast of Scotland. All aboard wore "saved. ..:/■ ... :. . 'Tho White Star liner Oceanic was tho longest vessel in the world when, she •made her appearance in 1899. She'wae '■■ a steel twin-screw three-masted steamer cf 17,274 tona built by Messrs. Harland and .Wolff,-.o£ Belfast; Her dinien.:.sioris were: 'Length, 685 ft.,' breadth, depth, 44.0 ft.; She had accom- ;. luodationfor-350 saloon, 250 intermedial rite, and 1000 steerage, passengers. The .. .Oceanic was an armed'merchant cruiser 'carrying eight'quick-firing guns. Prior \o the war the vessel was regularly em-' ..- sloyed under contract with the British Government .in carrying American mails .from Southampton and Cherbourg to : New York. -. The Oceanio'carried a crew'of 7'450|a1l told, and.hadv a speed of about ,21i.knots.. During her runs across tho she ■'■established..' records., till :'j larger and. faster.shipa made their; ap--;'pearance.."'; . : :- "■• ■ ■'
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2252, 11 September 1914, Page 6
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158ARMED LINER WRECKED Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2252, 11 September 1914, Page 6
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