BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK IN COLLISION.
TWO SMALL PATROL AIRSHIPS MISSING. (Received 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, December 16. A British destroyer was sunk on Wednesday after collision. Two of her «ew are missing" T l>e Admiralty report- that a British airship of the non-rigid type, with a 'tew of fI Ve _ proce " ede(i on patro ] on Tuesday from its East Coast base, and has n °t returned. It is believed that she was destroyed by a hostile seaplane in c southern part of the North Sea. A second airship of similar type was forced «> descend through engine failure in Holland on Wednesday.—(A. and N.Z. and **uter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 300, 17 December 1917, Page 5
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