SEA MINES.
THE ROXA DISASTER. GOOD WORK BY TRAWLERS. LONDON. S.nt. 7The trawlors ({id wondorir.liy elFeelive work iti res'niinji the survivors of ihe ltona. Only iiie cajitaiu and >:)-> usMoors remained on hoard. The ro-»:.-"mler <»i the erew manned ihe boats or ioaprd overboard. Many wilh li linos picked tu> drowning pawngers. Ont- trawler saved 1 "JS persons, and became dangerously overloaded.
LOSS OF Till-: PATHFINDER. THE MINE SHOCK. FELT THIvF.I-: MILES AWAY. LONDON, Sept. 7. The Pivss lUiioau reports that the. casualties anions tiio officers o? H.M.S. Pathfinder .ire: —Paymaster Finch, killed: Captain Leike and Staff-Surgeon Smyth.. wounded; Lieutenant-Com-mander FaviU, Lieutenants Leather and Carter and five others are missing. A trawler was three miles distant, and the 11101 were below at meals wlicn an explosion and shock were felt. The trawlers crew saw the Pathfinder alninn perpendicular, and a terrible oxplosion followed in a fow minutes. De.stroyei's rescued ninety and conveyed them to Rosyth.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15447, 9 September 1914, Page 8
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154SEA MINES. Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15447, 9 September 1914, Page 8
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