A COLLISION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 10 June 1912, Page 5

A COLLISION

BATTLESHIP AND SUBMARINE

TWENTY-SIX LIVES LOST.

*T CABLE--PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPY. EIGHT PARIS, June 9. The.battleship St. Louis collided with and cut in two the submarine Vendemaire at Cherbourg.' Twenty-six of the <t<*w were drowned.

A submarine practising an attack rose tmde'r the Saint Louis's bow and %ank in 170 ft. of water. A great bubbling on the surface ensued,!and the sea was ■covered with oil. Portions of the submarine's deck rose within "12 minutes. The warships immediately anchored on the spot, but nothing further was seen. A strong sea and current impede salvage. , (Received June 10. 11 a.m.) PARIS, June 9. The battleshij) Marseillaise remains ■on the scene where the submarine sank sSt "Cherbourg. "Lieut. Prional, commander of the Vendempire, left three children.