N.Z. LINER SUNK
FORT ADELAIDE TORPED®ED WHILST OUTWARD BOUND The manager of the Commonwealth and Dominion;' Line - received a cable message last evening advisinghini that the well-known cargo-carrier Port Adelaide (ex Ind'riipura) had been sunk, and that all the passengers and crew had been saved. The vessel, which is the third vessel of the line to feel the German hate campaign, was .outward . bound from London, which port she left for Australia and New Zealand last week. She would have r a full cargo 'onsigned to Australian ports, ; Auckland, Napier, and Wellington..The-other two Commonwealth- and- Dominion liners that have keen sunk were tlie'Port Nicholson and iUarere. ' The Port Adelaide was a steel screw steamer of 10,285 tons (gross) register. She was built in'l9ll by Swan, Hunter, Wigham, arid Richardson, Ltd., of Newcastle. She was 490 ft. Gin. in length, liad a beam of 61ft. 3in., and a'depth of 32ft. 4in.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2997, 7 February 1917, Page 6
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150N.Z. LINER SUNK Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2997, 7 February 1917, Page 6
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