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■ * — LOSS OF A BARQUE. AFTER A COLLISION. NINETEEN PERSONS DROWNED. By Telegraph. — Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 5, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, 4th April. The four-masted barque Kate Thomas, bound from Antwerp to Port Talbot, Wales, sunk at Lands End' after being in collision with another vessel. Nineteen, persons were drowned, including the wives of the captain and chief officer. A cabin-boy wa> the only survivor. The Kate Thomas was an iron vessel of 1748 tons gross, built in 1885 by W. Doxford and Sons, Sundertand. She belonged to the Kate Thomaa Sailing Ship Company (W. Thomas, Sons, ana j Co., Ltd.), and- her port of registry was Liverpool. Her dimensions were : Length, 258 feet ; breadth, 39ft. sin. ; depth, 23ft. lin.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 79, 5 April 1910, Page 71
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