MARINE DISASTERS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10716, 8 October 1912, Page 5

MARINE DISASTERS

CABLE NEWS

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LOSS OF THE SCBMAIUNr.. THE EXPERIENCE. (Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.) LONDON, October 7. Four destroyers have been conducting swooping operations for the submarine IJ2, but without result. They continued throughout the night. Lieutenant Pulleyne states that be was carried to iiie bottom with the submarine, but n terrific rush c f escaping air inflated his oilskins and carried him to the surface He wriggled out of his oilskins. Naval circles attribute the disaster to suction. DIVERS AT FAULT. EXPERT OPINION. (Received October 7, 8.26 a.m.) LONDON, October 6. The divers find that they located a rock in mistake for the submarine. Dredging continues. Lieutenant Pulleyne is recovering. but is still unable to complete history. Experts are of opinion that: seaweed obscured the periscope and forced the submarine to ascend. Lieutenant Pulleyne, they think, came on deck, saw the Amorika, and signalled her approach, but too late to avert tho collision, which probably caused an explosion of the air cylinders, wrecking the interior of the submarine and killing the crew immcdi.itelv.

GERMAN STEAMER SINKS

ANOTHER DAMAGED,

(Received October 7, 8.38 a.m.)

BERLIN, October 6

The Hamburg-Amerika Company's ( steamer Vandalia collided with a ; floating dock in the Elbe and sank; - ' 1 Tho passengers were saved. The ; cook and carpenter, who were below at the timo of the collision, were ( drowned. | Later, the same company's Graecia ' collided with the wreck, and had to he j heached. j (The Vandalia was a stool vessel of \ 4230 tons gross, built in 1905, by C I Connell and Co., Ltd,. Glasgow. The] Graeci; is a vessel of 2799 tons., built in 1890.)