Show IU S WARSHIP J STEAMER CRASH NEW YORK Dec 19 W A JP-A A 26 ton battleship the U. U S. S S. S Arkansas Arkansas Ar Ar- kansas and a freighter a a fifth her size collided in the dark hours of early eary morning off oft the Jersey coast Thursday damaging the smaller vessel so badly that she had to tobe tobe tobe be beached after limping 40 miles to New York harbor The crash occurred off oft Sea Girt at about 3 a. a m. m None of the personnel personnel per per- aboard either ship was Injured injured injured in in- and the Arkansas oldest odest battleship of its type in service was practically undamaged Listing heavily to port the ton freighter was run aground by her master Captain George E. E Tubbs on Red Hook flats fats a shallows shallows lows off olf the Brooklyn shore with shore with within in sight of the Brooklyn drydock she slie had sought to reach The Arkansas carrying Arkansas carrying about naval reservists the reservists the last group of ot some undergoing training for commissions also aso also continued on onto onto to lo New York and dropped her anchor in her customary spot in inthe inthe inthe the Hudson |