CHANNEL BOAT'S MISHAP.
LONDON. March 20. The cross-Channel passenger steamer Maid of Kent, when she was leaving Dover, struck the half-submerged hull of one of the steamers which had been sunk at the mouth of the harbour as a wartime defence. Tjie collision caused the Steamer to swing against the breakwater, her bows being crumpled anti her side rent.. She returned to Dover under her own steam, 400 passengers being transferred to another steamer. No one was injured, although many people bad narrow escapes. It is believed tho collision was due to a breakdown of the steering^c-aw
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19291, 1 April 1926, Page 9
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