A LINER'S ESCAPE
TWO VESSELS TORPEDOED. (Received March 18, 8.45 a.m.) .LONDON, March 17. The liner Cameronia eluded a sub- j marine off the Mull of Galloway. A quarter of an hour later two submarines appeared, one on either side of the liner, -which zigzagged for twenty minutes at eighteen knots and escaped,' The Admiralty announces that the small steamer Atlanta was torpedoed off Inishturk (on the west coast, of Ireland) on the fourteenth. The crew landed, and the vessel reached harbor. The steamer Fingall was torpedoed on the fifteenth ofi Northumberland. Twenty-one landed, and six, including the chief mate and a stewardess, perished.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 18 March 1915, Page 5
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104A LINER'S ESCAPE Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 18 March 1915, Page 5
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