COLLISION AT SEA.
FOLLOWED BY A WRECK.
HEROIC ATTEMPTS AT RESCUE. Received This Morning, 12.30 o'clock LONDON, November 7. The mail boat Brighton, which sailed from Newhaven for Dieppe, was seriously damaged in a collisio.n with the live-masted vessel Preussen, bound from Hamburg for Valparaiso. The latter is the world's largest sailing vessel. The collision occurred off Beaehcv Head. The Preussen, with a crew of thirty, was afterwards wrecked off Dover in a gale. Heavy seas impeded life-boat operations. The coast-guard is'making heroic efforts to save the crew, by throwing rocket apparatus aboard. The attempts at rescue are being continued.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10138, 8 November 1910, Page 5
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100COLLISION AT SEA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10138, 8 November 1910, Page 5
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