A HOSPITAL SHIP'S FATE.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, June 19. Survivors of the Dover Castle have arrived. They state that it was a beautiful, calm night, and their first warning was an explosion ripping a great hole m the vessel and killing six of the stokehold crew. A comrade dragged out another fireman with a broken jaw and shoulder and bruises and cuts from head to foot. Tlie oflicers and doctors, with the utmost courage, directed .the rescue work. There were 600 wounded aboard, many without arms and others hobbling, swathed m bandages. There was great relief when it was announced, that all had been transferred. There were no nurses aboard. The ship's hose" dived after a second torpedo was fired.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14329, 20 June 1917, Page 3
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123A HOSPITAL SHIP'S FATE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14329, 20 June 1917, Page 3
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