A motor launch from H.M.S, Kent which sank on Sunday night following a collision with the cargo-boat Cotton Light, was brought to the surface "t about 6 o'clock yesterday evening after engineers and divers from the Shanghai Dockyards Ltd., had spent Monday locating the craft and proceeded to raise her yesterday early in the afternoon.
According to an eye-witness of the accident it appears that the Cotton Light was proceeding up river alongside the Gertrude Moller when, 150 feet from the French Mail pontoon, the.motor boat tried to pass at a very short distance from the bow of the cargo boat. A few seconds later the crash occurred. The motor-Doat was then seen making full speed for the British cruiser, but it sai just as attempts were being, made to make fast by means of rope which had been let down from the Kent.
No one was injured and as soon as the hull had been located underneath H.M.S. Kent, divers went down to make her fast and she was subsequently pulled to the surface.
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