WOULD NOT SINK.
svuAN EX-WARSHIP. " 'navigates herself to lord/howe .';■;.>: -'■-' ■;' ;'- island. ; -"'-: '' ■"■'' ; : '" iir 'xir.EGßArir— peess < association— copibioht. ■••/. l; ■ ; (Ree. Oct."2i, i'p.m/i'; ' ...Sydney; October 21. ;.; Early in .the month the steamer St. Louis; while on a voyage from Noumea ;to Sydney with thei old French warship Mourtho in tow, ■ abandoned tho latter, 1 which' was' reported to bo 'in a sinking condition. Word has now been -received from ij Lord Howe Island that the old warship has drifted .ashore there, and is lying high and'dry. Tha derelict : is. : claimed by the islanders. ' ' ; ;i . The Meurtho was being towed" to 'Sydney to be broken up, but heavy weatkor:caused the tow-lino to snap, killing a seaman on the Meurthe, and the latter'a crew abandoned' her. It ; . was-said that she had sprung a leak, and that the. crow ■ got-..off,.'.at. great risk, in a boat,: which was smashed in the transfer to tho St.' Louis;"lt 'was also stated that the Meurthe; when abandoned, was "almost level with the 'water's edge."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 23, 22 October 1907, Page 5
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163WOULD NOT SINK. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 23, 22 October 1907, Page 5
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