A TURKISH ACCOUNT OF THE INCIDENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 28 May 1915, Page 5

A TURKISH ACCOUNT OF THE INCIDENT.

May 28, 10.30 a._u)

• CONSTANTINOPLE, May 27. A telegram states that the Triumph was torpedoed at noon on the 25th.

There was a terrible explosion and the vessel turned on her side within a minute. Seven minutes later 6he turned and floated awhile keel upwards, and then sank rapidly.

_ The Triumph, under the name of Independencia, was, with a sister ship the Labertad, originally laid down for Chili, but both vessels were afterwards purchased by the British Government and re-named the Triumoh and the Swiftsure.