Show WATERY HAS mil A british battleship CAUSED BY A COLLISION four Hi hundred indred mens lives are lost vi tyron drowned london june 23 A tragedy on the sea without parallel in naval annals occurred at 5 yesterday after noon the british battleship victoria thu the flagship flap ship of the mediterranean daneall squadron guadron qu adron completed its checked career by sinking kofl after a collision with the CAmper camperdown down a sister bister 6 ship h ap of trio ta squadron equa dron the trag dy resulting in the loaa of men itiL ladine the alte admiral of th Equa squadron dron has not dean equalled equal led in in fatal results since the binkinz Bin kini of the royal george in m 1782 when boo souls found their ahr ma in the ac aa waves the tha account of the ater is me meager siger and the tv tr for the loss loaa of life lias has not been fixed tildeon minnas after the victoria received tb fatal blow the water clo t pd over her nut aud the brave hearts that had bad prepared to battla with all the oft enemies of their c antry had bad ceased to beat because of the probable tui of a friend more deadly than the design of a foe the loss losa of this ibis ship with tue the attending terrible saLi aico of life is IB looked upon as confirming the opinion of many naval of fierra concerning tho the monster warships wai wal ships of the present day naval engineering th they e y point oat has not progressed as an 1113 idly as naval architecture and a stupendous mass of a tau lo 10 n warship cannot be controlled with the ease a naval generally desires taking it alto gettier the disaster is la regarded dod by naval keople as aa a severe lesson son to th the navies of the world the victoria ictoria was a twin screw eZ b battleship attle ap of tons and 1400 horse power she mounted fifteen guns the Camper camperdown down was waa also a first class twin screw battleship of tons and bor bocser ser power and carried ten sans guns vice admiral al sir george tryon was commander m dubief of the mediterranean erra nean station |