DREADFUL CATASTROPHE.
At Newcastle- on -Tyne, at about five o'clock a.m., on the 26th December, the River Tyne Improvement Commissioners' Steamboat Gypsy Queen was sunk in the Tyne, and between thirty and forty men were drowned. Every morning a steam-tug brings up the commissioners' workmen from North and South Shields, and there were about fifty men on board the Gipsy Queen coming up to the commissioners' works above Newcastle Bridge. When passing Northumberland Dock, the steamer struck upon the wreck of a sunken lighter, and it was immediately found that she was so much damaged that there was no possibility of preventing her sinking. The steamer's boat was at "once launched, but the men rushed into her in such great numbers that the boat capsized. The steamer went down in about 5 minutes after striking upon the wreck, and it is estimated that fully thirty men were drowned. Two or three small boats were near the place, and by then* means it is supposed that about twenty men were saved.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1733, 23 February 1874, Page 2
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170DREADFUL CATASTROPHE. Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1733, 23 February 1874, Page 2
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