The Collision in Dover Bay: the Franconia backing from the Strathclyde, 1876. 'The Strathclyde, of Glasgow, an iron steam-ship bound from London to Bombay, was run into by the Franconia, a German steamer from Hamburg, going to Havre and New York. The Strathclyde sank in a few were seventy persons on captain, John Dodd Eaton, ordered the boats to be got out, but one of them was swamped, and many persons were thrown into the [In] Captain Eaton's account of the disaster, in his evidence at the [he said] "She struck us stern on, between the beam and
The Collision in Dover Bay: the Franconia backing from the Strathclyde, 1876. 'The Strathclyde, of Glasgow, an iron steam-ship bound from London to Bombay, was run into by the Franconia, a German steamer from Hamburg, going to Havre and New York. The Strathclyde sank in a few were seventy persons on captain, John Dodd Eaton, ordered the boats to be got out, but one of them was swamped, and many persons were thrown into the [In] Captain Eaton's account of the disaster, in his evidence at the [he said] "She struck us stern on, between the beam and the quarter. The result of the blow was to cut into our vessel about four of the gentlemen who were on the bridge were washed overboard as well as the boat with the assistance whatever was rendered from the steamer that ran us down; not even a rope was thrown".' From "Illustrated London News", 1876.
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