MINE-LAYER BLOWN UP IN SHEERNESS HARBOUR.
DISASTER DUE TO . ACCIDENTAL , EXPLOSION.
DEATH-ROLL BELIEVED TO BE OVER 200.
London, May 27.
It is officially announced that the auxiliary ship Princess Irene was accidentally blown up in Sheerness Harbour. There was only one survivor. Seventy-eight dockyard workmen were reported to be aboard.
A later message states that it is believed that over 200 lives were lost.
The Princess Irene was a mine-layer, and belonged to the
Canadian-Pacific Company.
There was an internal explosion at
eleven o'clock in the morning, and the steamer totally disappeared. ' A stoker named David Wills, who was picked up, sustained burns. Several men on the adjacent vessels were wounded by falling splinters. There were pathetic scenes outside the gates when the notice of the death-roll was postedi
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 7
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