CHANNEL BOAT'S MISHAP
LONDON, March 20 The cross-Channel passenger steer Maid of Kent, when, she was leaving Dover, struck the half-submerged huh ol one of the steamers which had lieen sunk tit the mouth of the harbour as a war-time defence. The collision caused the steamer to swing against the breakwater, her bows being crumpled and her side rent.. She returned to Dover under her own steam. 400 passengers being transferred to another steamer. No one was inlured, although many people had narrow escapes. li i.-i nelievc.l the collision was due to :■ br. iikdi 'Wii of the l steering gear.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 6 April 1926, Page 5
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