CITY OF ATHENS DISASTER
CAPTAIN GUILTY OF .NEGLI-
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(AtIIRiLIAN-NBW ZEALAND CABLR ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 21st August. The verdict in the enquiry into th« City of Athens disaster stated that the vessel was sunk by a sub-merged mine in consequence ■of having been navigated within a proscribed r area contrary to Admiralty instructions. The master's certificate.Was suspended, for six months.
[The City of Athens was sunk recently off Capetown. Fifteen passengers and five of the crew were drotrned.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1917, Page 7
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