DESTROYERS COLLIDE
OFFvSYRACUSE. .: :]- - !■ By. Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. March 24, 8.45 p.m.)';'. Rome, March 24. The destroyers Stag and Mallard collided whilst manoeuvring off Syracuse, Sicily. The bow of each vessel •• was stove in, .but the airtight compartments prevented them sinking. Harconigrams brought the cruisers Bacchante' and Aboukir,, which tugged the destroyers to a place of safety. [The destroyer Stag was built at Thorneycroft's yard, Chiswick, in 1900, and is a.SO-knot boat of 320 tons displacement. The Mallard is another Thorneycroft boat of almost.the same displacement and speed, but of an older type, having been built in 1896.]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 775, 26 March 1910, Page 5
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