MAMMOTH GERMAN LINER.
CAUSES £6000 DAMAGES WHEN LEAVING PORT: *''
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.) NEW YORK, May 28. The . steamer Vatei'land, when departing, overturned a coal barge and! dragged two tugboats from, their berths. In backing out she nearly crushed two .large ■ passenger steamers , and then swung towards the pier. The' churning by her screws sucked the water out, thus causing the hawsers of two steamers to snap and forcing them against the bulkheads, smashing their own rails and also the pier rail*. . < '.-■ The Vaterland proceeded on her voyage after inflicting £6000- worth of damage.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13393, 29 May 1914, Page 3
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95MAMMOTH GERMAN LINER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13393, 29 May 1914, Page 3
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