SUNKEN SUBMARINE.
HOW THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. LONDON, March 20. In connection with the manoeuvres the A 1 submarine was instructed to await the battleships oil the Nab lightship, her periscope alone indicating her position. The Berwick Castle struck the periscope, and reported to destroyers in the vicinity that she had struck a torpedo, being unaware that she had run down a submarine vessel. The submarine not coming to the surface, a search was ordered, and the hull discovered in lifteen fathoms. Salvage of the vessel has commenced. THE DAMAGE TO THE Al. CREW "PRACTICALLY DIED IN ACTION." (Received March 21, 11.28 p.m.) LONDON, March 21. The divers who examined the submarine ascertained that two holes were knocked in the conning tower, tind the electric light was extinguished. A heavy swell frustrated the raising of the vessel by means of a wire hawser ; but salvors have contracted to place the submarine in Portsmouth docks. King Edward, Queen Alexandra, the Prince of Wales, and the Earl of Selborne, First Lord of the Admiralty, sent messages of sympathy to the relatives of those drowned. Admiral Fisher declared that his comrades had practically died In action, cheerfully and enthusiastically performing a duty involving all the risltß of war.
BRISBANE NAVIGATION. A COMPLAINT AGAINST CANADIAN MAIL BOATS. (Received March 22. 1.20 A.m.) BRISBANE, March 21. The Minister for Agriculture, Hon, D. 11. Dalrymple, speaking at a luncheon on board the Aberdeen, White Star liner, and commenting on the fact that the vessel had come up to the city, said they were at present paying £IO,OOO annually to the Can- I ndian mall service, whose steamers gingerly ventured into the mouth of tlio river, and, staying a very few i hours, discharged a bit of cargo and i scuttled away as fast as they could. : The Government considered that they were entitled to more than that, and would take steps to see that vessels at the end of the present contract came up the river,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 22 March 1904, Page 3
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329SUNKEN SUBMARINE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 22 March 1904, Page 3
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