A NAVAL ACCIDENT.
LOSS OF A TORPEDO DESTROYER. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, August 5. During the naval manoeuvre:? the torpedo boat destroyer Viper, built on the turbine principle and claimed as the fastest vessel afloat, while going twenty knots an hour entered a fog and struck on some rocks off Alderney on Saturday. She broke her back and foundered. All on board were saved.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12573, 7 August 1901, Page 5
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66A NAVAL ACCIDENT. Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12573, 7 August 1901, Page 5
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