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A SAD OCCURRENCE.
16 TRAINING SHIP BOYS DROWNED. Press Association. —Telegraph—Copyright. Received -August.3l-, 11 a.in. LONDON. August 30. Twenty lads belonging to the training ship Cornwall Were rowing off Pnrfleet, when a squall drove a tug upon the rowing boat, and cut it in halves, the boat sinking immediately. An officer and 16 lads were drowned, the current being ' too strong for even the most powerful swimmers.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14697, 31 August 1915, Page 6
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67A SAD OCCURRENCE. Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14697, 31 August 1915, Page 6
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