MARINE DISASTER.
TORPEDO BOAT CUT IN HALVES
SIXTY-SEVEN MEN DROWNED. (Received March 6, 9 am.) BERLIN, March 5. The cruiser Yorck, 9350 tons, rammed and sank torpedo boat No SI7F two miles south of Heligoland. (Received' March 6, 10.10 a m.) BERLIN, March 5. For several days the North Sea fleet has been manoeuvring near Heligoland. Tho Kaiser on Monday inspected torpedoer Sl7B at Wilhelmshaven. He boarded a battleship to watch the manoeuvres, and returned shortly before the catastrophe. She was cut in halves at midnight, and sank like a stone. •The warships immediately sent tip flares and turned their searchlights on to enable the undamaged Yorck in her rescue work. Sixty-seven men were drowned, including the commander and the navigating officer.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 March 1913, Page 5
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122MARINE DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 March 1913, Page 5
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