WARSHIP DAMAGED
LONDON, August 22. The first class armoured battleship Hannibal (16 guns, 14,900 tons), while execut- j ing a gun-laying test off Babbicomb© 1 (Devonshire), -scraped a reef- Several j plates were torn, and the boiler room and oil-storage -tattks were "flooded. Sb»' was docked at.vßevonport. But for the high' tide and she~ waa'goiig at full speed, the damage 'would have' been much greater. . ' r . , ' ''"'," August 23. The Hannibal's, repairs will occupy -four: months. "^ j
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Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 23
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