Thursday, December 13, 2012

Centurion Sank The Derna.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 13, 1912:
Twenty-five Persons on the Italian Steamer Run Down by Dreadnought.
    DEVONPORT, Dec. 12.— The steamer run down and sunk by the British battleship Centurion in the English Channel on Tuesday was, as has now been almost certainly established, the Derna, whose crew consisted probably of about twenty-five men. She was formerly known as the Girenti, and was owned in Genoa.
    The Derna passed Dungeness on Dec. 8 on the way to Port Talbot, Wales, from Memel, on the Baltic Sea. A boat marked "Derna," containing the body of a man, was picked up this morning off the Isle of Wight, and the bow light found on the Centurion after the collision has been identified as belonging to the Derna.

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