THE SUBMARINES.
P. AND 0. LINER SUNK. Six MEN KILLED ON. STEAMER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Cbpyng'hk (Received April 8, 10 a.m.) LONDON, April 7. Lloyd's report that the Peninsular and' Oriental liner Simla was sunk in the Mediterranean. • r The steamer'Yesuvio,- from ths. Mediterrakean'to London, was torpedoed in the Channel. The captain and five of the crew perished, and three others were injured. ■(Tho Simla, a India liner,, was of 5384 tons, built in .1894 at Greenock, and owned by ths P. ana O. Navigation: Company. Lloyd"' s Register gives her commander as Captain C. Goldsmith. The Vesuvio was an old iron screw .steamer,* built in 1879 at Sunderland. She was of. 1391. tons, and was owned'by. the General Steam Navigation • Company, Ltd., London, and commanded' by Captain J. G. Mummeny. She was formerly tho Czar.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11669, 8 April 1916, Page 1
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