DISASTERS AT SEA.
[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, August 13. The steamer Eosphorus, of Newcastle, lias been sunk in the English Channel through coining into collision with the ship Abbey town bound to Warmambool with a cargo of cement. The crew of the Bosphorus were saved by the Abbeytown. The latter vessel had her bows stove in by the force of the collision, but sue was able to reach. Plymouth harbour in safety. Kj;!SBANE, August 15. The steamship Afghan, bound from Fooohow to Sydney with 5000 tons of tea as cargo, has gone ashore on the Cockburn i\e<<, Torres Strait. > Sue has sustained some ivy, as her fore compartment is already full of water, and 500 tons of tea have been damaged. It is, however, expected that sb.e will be floated oil safaly.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9134, 16 August 1888, Page 5
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