ROSCOMMON SUNK
NO LOSS OF LIFE.
The Prime Minister has received advice (that 'the Roscommon, one. of the Union Steam Ship Company's vessels sailing under the Federal flag, has been sunk. There was no loss of life.
Tho Roscoinmon was formerly named the Oswestry Grange, and was the vessel upon which 'ka Rt. Hon. R. J. Saddon died, on Sunday, lOfch June, 1906, soon after leaving Sydney to, return .to New Zealand. The vessel was owned by the Federal-Houlder-Shir© Lino, but was afterwards acquired by the Union Steam Ship Company. She was a steel tv>/in-screw four-masted steamer of 7381 tons gross, and 4730 tons not, ■classed 100A at Lloyds', and built in 1902 by Workman, Clark and Co., Ltd., at Belfast. Her principal dimensions were: Length, 4uoft Sin; beam, 55ft 2in; dopth, 30ft 6iu. The vessel was fitted with refrigerating machinery and big space for frozen cargo.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 49, 27 August 1917, Page 2
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147ROSCOMMON SUNK Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 49, 27 August 1917, Page 2
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