COLLISION AT SEA
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United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.
ANTARCTIC LJNER DRMAGED BY A BRITISH CRUISER.
(Received Lasrt Niigjht, 10.10 o'clock.)
LONDON, September 20.
The White Star liner Olympic was pnsising Co we./ far Cherbourg and New York, with three thousand passengraiis aboard, seven hundred and thirty-two were funst-class (including a dozen miillionaires), wihen the cruiser Hawk overtook her in drizzling rain. Thie cruiser steamed alongside, and slowed down to pas*- astern, Wlien she wtasi apparently drawm by tie suction and criarihed into tihe Olytppic starboard. No panic of any sort occurred as a result of the collision, the doors •bednig promptly dosed.
The cruiser retuiitied to Portsmouth with her fore compartments filed with wlater.
'The Olycmjpiic returned slowly to Southampton'. Her plates were badly buckled, loading to a huge gap, and she had u distinct list.
FURTHER DETAILS.
A TERRIFIC IMPACT.
(Received Last Night, 10.15 o'clock.)
LONDON., September 21
The impact betwieen the two vte&■sdlis was terrific. It was like the report of a heavy gun, and was heard a mile away. Forty feet of the. Olympic's plates wei% torn, the cruiser's stem penetrating the second-cla&s 'cabins. The Hawk looked like turning turtle', but she quickly righted herself. Her' stem was smashed from the wiaterldne back to the hawser holes.
The suddenness with which the cruiser changed her course suggests that'her' steetfing gear was faulty.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10430, 22 September 1911, Page 5
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229COLLISION AT SEA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10430, 22 September 1911, Page 5
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