DURING NAVAL MANOEUVRES.
ELEVEN OFFICERS AND MEN LOST.
Press Association-Electric .Telegraph—Copyright I LONDONi-Sunday. During naval''manoeuvres''iff'-" Whitesand Bay, west Of Plymouth Sound, submarine A 7, under Commander Wellman, foundered in , seventeen fathoms at midday. Salvagers arc -endeavouring to raise her. The crew were still alivo at 5 o'clock. When the flotilla was ordored to the surfaco, the submarine did not rise. , A warship communicated with the crew wirelessly, and divers also communicated by "tapping," but received no answers after 6 o'clock. The catastrophe is attributed to disabled pumps. The salvagers returned to port, and will-resume in the morning.;, The death-roll i 3 two officers and nino petty officers and men.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11882, 19 January 1914, Page 5
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