STRUCK BY A COMBER.
IXHB EWCOUNTBS FLOOBE3. .£STP£BVTED TO SUBKEARJNS ACTIVITY. . MELBOL~ELN~E, June 20. The.warabip Encounter has had a sen,jjfaaal experience. 'The-Encounter left Auckland on >lay 24, and at 10 o'clock the following night zaiienlj encountered an extremely heavy sea. A- gigantic wave flooded the afterpart of the warship, filling the wardroom zi& knocking the bottom out of the galley. Other damage was also done. The TOTC nearly washed tho men off the <£]ie commander a-fctribntes the occurrence fj [£• submarine, volcanic disturbance, tie coinciding with a seismic-dis-jjanbaseein Jfew Zealand.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 148, 21 June 1912, Page 5
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