Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-06-30
.43OIN WATERY GRAVES
TWO BRITISH WARSHIPS HAVE
AN AWFUL COLLISION.
Out of us Officers and Men 43O are
Drowned, Including Admiral Tryon
Victoria the Fated Vessel.

London cable: most terrible ca
lamity has befallen the British battle
ship Victoria, flagship of the Mediter-
ranean squadron and hundreds of lives
have been lost. She was run into off
the coast of Tripoli by the British bat
tleship Camperdown.
The Victoria flew the flag of Vice
Admiral Sir George Tryon, X. G. Il.
The Camperdown, also belongs to the
Mediterranean squadron and is under
the command of Capt Charles John
stone. The Victoria had an enormous
hole made in her side through which
the water poured in in torrents. The
immense hull at once began to settle
and before those on board of her could
cast loose their small boats she went to
the bottom carrying down with her
nearly all on board. Some of the Off
GERS and crew managed to get out of
the suction caused by the sinking YES
sci and were RESCUED. Among those
lost was Vice Admiral Tryon. The
loss of life was not less than 430.
The Victoria was a twin screw bat
tleship of 10, 40 tons and 1000 horse
power. She mounted Is guns. The
Camperdown is also a tirSt-ciaSs twin
screw battleship. She is of 10, 900 tons
and IL 800 horsepower and carries 10
guns. Admiral Sir George Tryon was
commander-in-chief of the Mediter-
ranean station. lie was made vice
admiral August 20. 1891
Rear Admiral Albert III. Markham, of
the Trafalgar, the flagship of the rear
admiral in the Mediterranean, has tel
egraphed to the admiralty from Tripoli
as follows: | regret to report that
while maneuvering off Tripoli the
Victoria and Camperdown collided.
The Victoria sank in Is minutes in 50
fathoms of water. She lies bottom
uppermost. The Camperdown' ram
struck the Victoria forward of the
turret on the starboard side. Twenty
one officers were drowned. Two hun
dred and fifty-five men We're saved.
The Camperdown will have TO be
docken for repairs"
Capt. Bourke was in command of the
Victoria when she sank. According to
the navy list the principal officers of
the Victoria were: Nice-Admiral, Sir
George Tryon; captain, Maurice A..
Bourlxe: commander, Charles l.. Ottley;
chaplain, Rev. Samuel :, O. Morris;
fleet surgeon, Thomas Bolster; feet
paymaster, Valentine ID. j. Ricord;
fleet engineer, Felix Foreman. The
complement of officers and crew of the
Victoria comprised us men.
Tripoli, the scene of the disaster is a
seaport town on the Mediterranean, so
miles northeast of Beyreuth, Syria,
and short distance from the island of
Cyprus. The Victoria met with Sc
rious accident in the eastern Mediter-
ranean in January, 1892, by running
upon a shoal near Platea, Greece, and
was released only by an immense out
lay of labor and expense.
Sir George Tyron the vice admiral who
lost hi, life, was IA man OF vast eNpe fence,
his service beginning in the days before
steam was prominent feature In ma al
architecture, and running through all OF
the various phases. lie was man who
earned TIE highest honor within the gift of
the British nation. His name hrst appears
on the naval list away back in the days OF
the Crimean war where he serN ed In the
naval brigade before Sebastopol during the
winter Of 1856 81, in the trenches, where he
was hut lie was present at all the opera
tions before sebastopol and at the capture
of hinburn. tie received medals OF dlstinc-
tion and was spe tally mentioned in dis
patches for services as director OF trans
ports during the Ably ,sinian war in lSGS
He was private secretary to the first lord OF
the admiralty from ISL TO la. received
various orders of knighthood and re-
ceived the approval of the government for
the manner in which he discharged his
dulles on the coat of runis and in the SfaX
commission OF inquiry in 1881.