The Archive · 1901

The Loss of the Cobra

London, 19th September.

The torpedo-boat-destroyer Cobra has been wrecked in the North Sea, Sixty of her crew were drowned.—Special service, Bombay, 20th Septembe The turbine torpedo-be: Cobrm, while making a trial trip in the North Sea, ran on a rock and sank. There ave twelve survivors, but it is feared that eighty lives were lost.—Reuter.

Bombay, 24th September, It transpires that the torpedo-boat-destroyer Cobra sank in seven fathoms of water, arfd there was not a_rock anywhere thereabouts, so it is inferred that the vessel broke in two.—Reuler

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