ONLY ONE SURVIVOR FROM THE SHIP.
EXPLOSION IORE SEVERE THAN THAT OF BULWARK.
MEDWAY COVERED WITH PIECES OF WRECKAGE.
(Received May 28, 10 p.m.)
London, May 28.
The Princess Irene was largely manned at Chatham. She left the dockyard only twenty-four hours previously, and was moored to a buoy 350 yards from the shore.
A sailor, who was picked up in the water, was unable to give an account of the accident. He was understood to say he was in the middle of the explosion, and thought he must have been blown into the water with the part of the ship wherein he was working. Three other men belonging to the Princess Irene had just gone ashore. Otherwise the whole crew were blown to pieces. Nothing except portion of the mast marks the place where the Princess Irene was berthed. The Medway was spotted with- pieces of wreckage and little bits of human bodies.
The explosion was more severe than that which destroyed the Bulwark in the Medway in November. Houses near the quay seemed to rock under the shock.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 7
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