The Loss of the Cobra.
The torpedo-destroyer Cobra, which struck on a rock on the Dowsingshoals last week and foundered, involving the loss of nearly sixty souls, was a turbine vessel of 310 tons, built to develop a speed of 35 knots, with
10,000 horse-power. Her armament consisted of six quick-firing 12pounders. The speed of the engines was 1000 revolutions a minute. The Cobra was a sister ship to the illfated Viper, wrecked in the Channel Islands during the recent naval manoeuvres, and had just been completed at the Elswick Works.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue XIII, 28 September 1901, Page 605
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91The Loss of the Cobra. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue XIII, 28 September 1901, Page 605
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