THE SERPENT DISASTER.
ARRIVAL OF THE SURVIVORS. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyrigh
London, November 24. The survivors of 11.M.5. Serpent, which was wrecked off the coast of Spain, have reached Plymouth. They state that a difference of opinion existed among the officers as to the course the vessel should be steered, and this led to the disaster. The vessel broke in two shortly after she struck the rocks.
The survivors complain that there was great scarcity of life belts on board, otherwise the loss of life would not have been so great.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8423, 26 November 1890, Page 5
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