BATTLESHIP DAMAGED.
UNCHARTED OBSTRUCTION HIT (British Official Wireless.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, July 13. The Admiralty report that the battleship Warspite yesterday afternoon struck an uncharted obstruction near Bepi Island lighthouse. The chart shows between 57 and GO fathoms of water at this spot, which is near the island of Skiathos, in the Aegean Sea. She will probably have to return to Malta to be docked.
The Warspite is a battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class, and is the flagship of Vice-Admiral Kelly, Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet.
The Warspite is a battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class. She was laid down in 1912, and completed in March, 1915. Her displacement is about 30,000 tons loaded, length 643 ft. She cost over £3,000,000. She was recently reconstructed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 165, 14 July 1928, Page 9
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