'• - ' •- •\ •,. _; -vV • ■ ..-J. ■ : '•... • v ;■ /. "... . >■ • v • >■; y •\' ,>. - ■ • -.. •• .•' ■ ■ ' ' ;■ <• ■ • •- : ■••• i —Illustrated London News.,-'"'- , 3 • Early on the morning of-March 16 a collision .occurred-in'the-English Channel, toff- Beachy Head,« bet v." »n the P.. atid O. liner Oceana, 0f.6000-tons,'-and the four-masted German barque Pisagua, of ; 2852 tons. . The,. barque , hit; the liner .a , straight >- 'blow' on tho ; port side, crumpling.her own' bows and badly holing the Oceana. The passengers: on: the li» v, in their anxiety to escape, took to>thei-boats, one of which was capsized , with the loss of 14 lives. The crew remained lon the liner, which , • was taken in "for'Dover,'-but after she had gone only a couple of miles she. gradually sank. ; The office i and crew.were all rescued by the towing vessel. •' The Oceana carried £1000,000 .worth of bullion, and bars. She was outward bound for Bombay. ► .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14984, 4 May 1912, Page 5 (Supplement)
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