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...connecting R. I. M. S. Warren Hastings with a rope to the shore, over which 1,200 troops were landed; made an hon. member for life of the mess of the ist Battery King's R. R. for saving life and property from the wreck of the troopship Warren Hastings...
...died, or broke bones, in her; she lost some spars; she took charge of her tugs; her cargoes shifted; she was on fire once and ashore four times." Finally, on April 14, 1907, at anchor in the Elbe River at two o'clock in the morning, a German troopship ran her down and sank her. Her officers and crew got off without loss of life, but she was a total loss. There part of the wreck still lies, in 24 ft. of water...
Commodore Cunningham was the man everyone had expected would command the Leviathan when, refurbished after her War service, she was recommissioned in 1923. As a lieutenant commander in the Navy during the War, Commodore Cunningham had navigated the Leviathan as a troopship after she was seized from Germany and her name, the Vaterland, erased...
River Tragedy. One morning last week the Kuang Yuang, a river troopship loaded with munitions and 1,500 mercenaries lay at anchor off Kiukiang on the Yangtze. The soldiers, allegedly adherent to Sun Chuan-feng, dozed, gambled, chomped a frugal meal of rice, fired an occasional shot into the air or at a passing sampan to while away the time...