LOSS OF DOVER CASTLE.
HEROISM OF OFFICERS.
TRANSFERRING THE WOUNDED
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.
(Becefred 11 p.m.)
LONDON. Juno 19.
Survivors from the hospital ship Dover Castle, which was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on May 26, have arrived. They state that it was a beautiful calm night. The first warning of the disaster was the ripping of a great hole and the killing of six men in the stokehole. A comrade dragged out another fireman with a broken jaw and shoulder and bruises and cuts from head to foot. Officers and doctors showed the utmost courage in direct* ing the rescue work. Six hundred wounded men, many lacking arms, hobbling and swathed in bandages, were cm board. There was great relief when it was announced that all had been transferred. There were no nunes on board. The ship , dived by the nose after the second torpedo struck her.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16570, 20 June 1917, Page 8
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