London vid Bombay, sth December The British cruiser Flora is ashore at Denman Island, British Columbia, and will probably be a total wreck, Her stern is ten feet under water—Reuter, The Flora was a second-class cruiser of 4,360 tons' displacement, 9,000 LH.P. and 193 knots' speed, built at Pembroke in 1898 at a cost of £243,783. She was com. manded by Captain Gasper J. Baker, who was recently in command of the Astia on this station.—Ep, 5th December.
H. M.S. Flora was going full speed to the firing ground when, mistaking 'a beacon in thick weather, she ran on the rocks with tremendous force. There were no casualties, though the officers' quarters were flooded im-
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