A LINER SINKING
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[COLLIDES WITH AN ICEBERG
ASSISTANOE'SOUGHT.
(Received This (Morning, 12.5 o'clock.)
NEW YORK, April 15. The White Star liner, Titanic, inland bound from Liverpool, has sent •a wireless message, stating that she has collided with an iceberg, and needs-assistance. The liner Virginian is hastening to her aid.
THE VESSEL SINKING.
THREE THOUSAND PASSENGERS ABOARD. .
WOMEN BEING TAKEN OFF.
Received This Morning, 12.40 o'clock.
= ; v ''i;.x''S^:-''-_;:LoNl)oN;, : Apra;is.:': : .;;'; The Titanic is off Cape Race, on the (south -.jvest of, Newfoiindland, iSjad'. ;> : is sinking by the head." : - . v ' :■">:• The women are being taken off. It is the Titanic's first voyage. . . She left Southampton. oii Wednieß-■'■■;' * day, iritii nearly "three j aboard. , '-if-.. The Titanic is a 45,000 ton vessel, I and bidlt in 1911 by Messrs Barj land and Woolf, of Belfast. She has • j a speed of 21$ knots.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10609, 16 April 1912, Page 5
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149A LINER SINKING Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10609, 16 April 1912, Page 5
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