BATTLESHIP RUNS AGROUND
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, August 13. The battleship, King-George V, which ran aground in the Gare Loch, near Roseneath, Scotland, this morning, was refloated on the rising tide tonight. The King George V was rejoining the Reserve Fleet at the Gare Loch when she ran aground at the narrows about 30 yards off-shore. She returning from Liverpool, where her hull had been repainted.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27737, 15 August 1955, Page 11
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