CATASTROPHE AT SEA.
London, March 18. The Anchor Line steamer Utopia, 2715 tons, bound from Genoa to New York, with eight hundred and fifty passengers on board chiefly Italian emigrants collided with the ironclads Anson and Rodney at anchor off Gibraltar. The Anson’s ram tore a hole in be? 30- feet wide, the Utopia snqk ifl IQ minutes, and five hundred and seventy lives were lost.
The boats of the Channel squadron rescued many. In the confusion a launch belonging to the ImmortalitQ was smashed and several Englishmen Were drowned, Th o oleqtrio fights of the warqlfips spalled scores to he rescued dp*’ night, and a Swedish co; veUe “ alß o saved many*
March 19. Further particulars received from Gibraltar state that a strong enrrent was running at the spot where the warships were lying and swept the ill-fated Utopia right across ihe Anson’s bows. A fierce gale was raging at the time, and the gallant efforts made by the British sailors to save the lives of those who were straggling in the water, are said to have been such as have rarely been witnessed before,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2178, 21 March 1891, Page 3
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186CATASTROPHE AT SEA. Temuka Leader, Issue 2178, 21 March 1891, Page 3
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