THE MYSTERY OF THE CUMBERLAND
.02000 REWARD OFFERED. Sydney. July 20. Thero are good hopee that the Cumberland will be refloated. Melbourne, July 20. The Federal Government is offering a reward of .£2OOO for information concerning tho Cumberland' outrage.—Pres3 Assn. ("The Cumberland, vhich left Sydney on July 5 on her voyage to England, was seriously damaged early the following morning, when a fow miles off Gabo Island, by explosions in one of tho holds, and hatl to be beached two or three homs later to provent her sinking. The Cumberland is one of three fine new vessels, aggregating 30,852 tons gross, which visited Melbourne on their maiden trips early last year. Constructed to the order of the Federal-Shire Steam Navigation Company, tho Cumberland is a steel twin-screw, four-uuistcd vessel, of 5392 tons gross, and is a very tine examplo of a modern merchant steamer, and is equipped with a cruiser stern. She Vas launched at Glasgow in March, 1915.1
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3142, 21 July 1917, Page 7
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159THE MYSTERY OF THE CUMBERLAND Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3142, 21 July 1917, Page 7
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