COLLISION AT SEA.
SMALL STEAMER SUNK. CREW RESCUED. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright, Received April 17, 4.45 p.m. LONDON, April 18. The steamer Ortona, when 20 miles south of Eddystone—a group of gneiss rocks, daily submerged by the tide in the English Channel, nine miles off the Cornish coast and 14 SSW of Plymouth breaKwater — collided with a small steamer named the Tryst, which struck the Ortona amidship on the port side. The Ortona's screw was twisted, but no material damage was done to her. The captain of the Ortona states that when the vessels collided there was no one at the Tryst's bridge wheel. The Ortona proceeds to Plymouth. The Tryst foundered shortly after the collision, but the crew were rescued.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3167, 19 April 1909, Page 5
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124COLLISION AT SEA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3167, 19 April 1909, Page 5
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