BRITISH STEAMER SUNK.
HULL LINE'S BRITYVNIC.
VESSEL NOT ARMED.
A. »nd N.Z. Cable. LONDON. August 3.
The steamer Britannic, 3487 tons, built in 1904, and owned by the Cocker Line, Hull, has been sunk. The vessel was not armed.
The first messages sent out regarding the sinking of the Britannic apparently failed to definitely identify the vessel. This fact caused speculation in America, as evidenced by the following message received from New York: "Lloyd's list includes three Britannics, one a huge White Star liner of 47,500 tons, the other a Britannic owned by the W. H. Cocker Line Company, and a third owned by Norwegians. The New York office of the White Star Line has no information regarding the sinking. Officials say that their Britannic has been laid up in a British port for some time, and is not being used for the passenger service. The Britannic, of the White Star Line, is their largest vessel. She has never been to America, having been completed since the outbreak of the war. She is larger than the Lusitania and Olympic, and only seven thousand tons smaller than the Vaterland, which is the largest vessel afloat."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16300, 5 August 1916, Page 7
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194BRITISH STEAMER SUNK. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16300, 5 August 1916, Page 7
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