NAVAL DISASTER.
* EXPLOSION ON MISSISSIPPI. ay CABLE —PREP® ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, June 17. At the naval_ inquiry into the explosion on board the battleship Mississippi, whereby 48 lives were lost, a seaman testified that, following on the first explosion, he was assisting to carry a body from the wrecked No. 2 turret when the dead man’s stiffened hand struck the firing switch, throwing it- into contact with a live- shell and thus producing the second explosion.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 June 1924, Page 5
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76NAVAL DISASTER. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 June 1924, Page 5
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