COLLISION IN THAMES
CASTLE LINER DAMAGED
(British Official Wiroless.)
RUGBY, November 9.
The Union Castle liner Grantully Castle (7592 tons), outward bound for Mauritius, and South Africa, was in collision in the Thames at Gallions Reach this morning with a Finnish steamer of 1988 tons soon after the liner had left the south-west India Dock, and she had to be run back to King George V Dock. The vessel was struck amidships and the plates on the port siae were damaged. Two hundred passengers were awaiting the arrival of the Grantully Castle at Tilbury, and some of these joined the same company's Arundcl Cas»*.le before she sailed fvom Southampton this afternoon. The others are awaiting the next sailing. VI it international cable ncw< npiiesirlnf! in this Issue is publisher! n.v arraiiccuiem wlrli Ui<! A<i--tra\lnn Pvws Asvn'iation and Iho "Sun," •■llcmlfl," Ivcns Offlcc. J.jniikcl. I
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 115, 11 November 1935, Page 9
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COLLISION IN THAMES
Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 115, 11 November 1935, Page 9
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