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LOSS OF THE PRESIDENT COOLIDGE CAPTAIN TOLD HARBOUR WAS SAFE. SHIP SAID TO HAVE STRUCK TWO MINES. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) WASHINGTON, December. 15. Mr J. Hugh Jackson, director of the American Presidents Line, told the Kiwanis Club in Stockton (California) that the President Coolidge was lost through a United States naval blunder. He said that when the President Coolidge reached the' harbour entrance, two United States destroyers were outside. The captain of the President Coolidge asked if the harbour was all right, and was told: “There’s nothing to worry about.” Therefore the President Coolidge ploughed into the harbour and struck two mines.
It was reported yesterday _ that an American naval board was inquiring into the possibility that the President Coolidge struck an American mine.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1942, Page 3
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