CRASH IN DENSE FOG.
LINERS IN COLLISION.
A GLANCING BLOW.
HUGE HOLE IN VESSEL'S SIDE. NARROW ESCAPE PROM TRAGEDY By Gable.—Press Association.—Copyright. / NEW YORK, June 14. The steamer < Newyork has sent a . -wireless message that the HamburgAmerika liner Pretoria collided with 'lter' iii.ft/denfoV'fogv" .. Ths Newyork is, not damaged, owing to the blow being a glancing one. it not believed that the Pretoria has l>een damaged seriously. • A later message states that the Pre- ;' toria ripped' a huge hole in the Newyork on the. port side, the Pretoria's * anchor remaining' fast in' the hole. \ ■ THe. Newyork" is not shipping" water, 1 ind 'is able to proceed. . There wag no panic, but immediately - after tke ctash the passengers in. both - steamers dashed ,up to the decks in their night-clothes. . . 1 ; j . . [The Pretoria is a steel twin screw steamer off <13,234 tons, built itV 189,7 l>y. i - Blohm and ; V Oss,' Hamburg, and o\yried the' HarHbu'rg-Ametika Company. * ' Hero dimensions 'arei . fcreadthv (522 feety .■'ktt<fr'dej>th;^37'.9 ! ; She .is equipped - With '• WifelekS. , The Jfewyork as a'• steel screw - steamer of "" •i>S9 r tonSj Owhed by- the'- AVnericani Ive- - trbleum Company, and built in' 1902 by - palmers' Company, Ltd.j Newcastle. She has a -length of- 428 feet, a breadth * : ®f '54.7 feet, sFnd a 'depth" of -30.4 feet. ■ 's Register does ridt show her to •• toe equipped with wireless;]
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 110, 15 June 1914, Page 7
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223CRASH IN DENSE FOG. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 110, 15 June 1914, Page 7
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