COLLISION IN HARBOR
FISHING TRAWLER SUNK Near Pulling Point, in the Lower Harbor, two fishing trawlers collided before daylight this morning. The stoam trawler Black Cat, of the Pioneer Trawling Company, was outward bound. The Kohinoor, motor trawler belonging to William Currie, of Timarn, was coming up the harbor, and bow on she hit the Black Cat amidships, smashing the bulwark. The Kohinoor was badly damaged, and sank in two minutes, the crew of two men going down with her. As they rose to the surface they wore hauled aboard the fishing boat Quest, which was also returning from the Heads. They were uninjured. A lifebuoy was thrown from the. Black Cat. Arrangements were being made this afternoon to lift the submerged Kohinoor and clear tbo channel tor other traffic. The value of the Koliinoor is said to he about £I,OOO.
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Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 8
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141COLLISION IN HARBOR Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 8
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