The Archive · 1928

Tribune Shoals Resignation of Greek Cabinet

HIMS. DAUNTLESS ON

@itisn Cruiser Aground at Entrance to Halifax Harbour: No 'M. Venizelos Entrusted to Casualties: Danger of Breaking in Two Form Ministry i Halifax, N. S. July 2. erutser Dauntless to-day ran aground on the Tribune Shoals ide tke entrance of the harbour owing to fog. There have been no Captain MacPherson gave the! older to abandon ship four hours after striking the shoal. He also ordered all vessels dround the cruiser 4 keep clear as there was a danger! gt its breaking in two. The men with their effects were removed in Hifeboats and placed aboard Cana, Gian cruisers Festubert and Ypres. July 3.

It is feared that the Dauntless mill be @ total loss.

The -entire crew have been taken of except fifty officers and men, who remained on board the whole Local. reports. indicate that the Dauntless which, in accordance with Naval custom, declined the \nervices of a local pilot, mistook the buoy marking the fairway, there being at the time a thick fog and

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