SUPPLY SHIP BLOWN UP.
(Received 10.35 a.m.)
XEW YORK, June 24.
An explosion destroyed a Government supply ship in an Atlantic port. The vessel was a large river steamer, and she had large supplies of munitions aboard for transhipment across the Atlantic. Particulars of the destruction are withheld, but it is stated that two of the crew are missing. The ship lies on the bottom of the harbour, with only her funnel and supstructure showing." The explosion shattered the windows fox miles around,— ±A. and 212. Cahle^
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 150, 25 June 1918, Page 5
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