STEAMERS COLLIDE
NORWEGIAN VESSEL SINKS.
(British Official Wireless.)
(Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, October 10. A collision occurred in the English Channel yesterday between the Blue Star liner Afric Star, bound from London to Buenos Aires, and the Norwegian steamer Charente (1327 tons) from Bordeaux to Oslo. The Charente’s crew and three passengers, including a woman and a baby, were brought aboard the Afric Star, which kept her bow locked in the Norwegian. Afterwards the Charente sank, the Afric Star returning to London where it was found her bows had been damaged.
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Southland Times, Issue 21835, 12 October 1932, Page 7
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