ROSCOMMON SUNK.
NO LOSS OF LIFE. The Prime Minister has received "advice that the Roscommon, one of the Union Steamship Company’s vessels sailing under the Federal flag, has been sunk. There was no loss of life. The Roscommon was formerly named the Oswestry Grange, and was the vessel upon which the Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon died, on Sunday, lOtli June, 1096, soon after leaving Sydney to return to New Zealand. The vessel was owned by the Fcd-oral-Honldcr-Shive ‘Line, but was afterwards acquired by the Union Steamship Company. She was a steel twin - screw four-masted steamer of 7,381 tons gross, and 4,730 tons net, classed 100 Aat Lloyds’, and built in 1902 by Workman, Clark and Co., Ltd., at Belfast. Her principal dimensions were: Length, 450 IL; beam, 55 ft. 2 in., depth., 30 ft: 6 in. The vessel was fit tod with refrigerating machinery and big space for frozen cargo.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1752, 28 August 1917, Page 3
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151ROSCOMMON SUNK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1752, 28 August 1917, Page 3
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