ACCIDENT TO A BATTLESHIP
By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, August 22. The battleship Hannibal, while executing a gunlaying test oir llabba combe, South Devon, scraped a reef. Several plates >.. ;v torn, and t'«e boiler-room and ■>!, fuel storage tanks were flooded, lae vessel was docked at Devonporl. But for the high tide and the fact that the vessel wa.- ,oiug at full speed the damage would have been much greater. Received 23. n.5 p.m. London, August 23. i The repairs to the battleship Hannibal, which was serioimly damaged by grazing a reef during gun-laying practice, will occupy four months.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 172, 24 August 1909, Page 2
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97ACCIDENT TO A BATTLESHIP Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 172, 24 August 1909, Page 2
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