BELGIAN SHIPPING DISASTER.
II" • ' ' TRAINING SHIP FOUNDERS. * _ ' THIRTY-FOUR LIVES LOST. By Telegraph.— Association—Copyrisht. > , (Eeceivcd April 24, 11.28 p.m.) London, April 24. The Belgian training ship Comte le Smefc de with 30 cadets aboard, bound for Australia, has foundered in a gale in the Bay of Biscay. The captain and 33 others of those ■ on board were drowned. c Twenty were saved, and are pro- • ceeding to Hamburg on the French barque Dunkerque. The ('onite le Swet de Maevcr was a Belgian full-rigged ship, of 1867 tons, and her ! master was Captain ooinellie. She arrived : at Antwerp on January 11, and she was in port on February 8. The cadets would belong to the mercantile marine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13160, 25 April 1906, Page 5
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115BELGIAN SHIPPING DISASTER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13160, 25 April 1906, Page 5
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