NAVAL COLLISION.
ANOTHER MISADVENTURE.
ONE DESTROYER SUNK.
ANOTHER DAMAGED.
(By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright.)
(Received 8.54 a.m.)
LONDON, April 28.
Disasters to vessels of the British Navy have been alarmingly frequent of late, and the third within a fortnight occurred last night. The scout Attentive, a vessel of 2940 tons and developing a speed of 25 knots, commanded by Captain Lewis Bayly, Commodore in Home Fleet in charge of torpedo boat destroyers, was leading night manoeuvres, accompanied by a fleet of fifteen destroyers, off the Knock sandbank, on the Kentish coast, when she rammed the destroyer Gala, a little craft of 590 tons with a speed of 25* knots. The Gala, which was struck abaft the engineroom, -was cut clean in halves.
The afterpart sank, but the closing of the watertight. compartments kept the forepart afloat, and the crew being all on this portion, it was towed into shallow water, one of the destroyers going in and rescuing- the crew.
During the collision Engineer-Lieuten-ant Drought was killed in his berth.
The scout Adventure also came into collision with the destroyer Riddle, but the damage was not extensive, and the destroyer was able to return to Sheerness.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 102, 29 April 1908, Page 5
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