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GAPING HOLE.IN TEAMER’S BOW.COLLISION IN THAMES.SMALL STEAMER BEACHED,Tie 10,420-ton Japanese, liner HalconeMara, of the Nippon Yuaen Kaiaha Line, was in collision daring1 a storm last month with the Norwegian steamer 1 Erling Lindoe (1281 tons) in the lower j reaches of the Thames, and the Erling | Liodoe was beached to prevent her from sinking. The collision occurred between Erith and Gravesend, when the HTakoae Marn was coming up river, almost at the end of her journey from the East. The Erling Lindoe was outward bound with a cargo of coke from Beekton gasworks.The captains of two tugs saw the accident and proceeded at full speed to the scene. The Hakone Mara had three orJfour plates in the port bow damagedand there was a gaping hole just above the water-line,, but she was able to proceed to dock.The Erling Lin doe was still more seriously damaged and in such imminent danger of going down that two tugs dashed to her aid. Many of her plates on the port side were ripped off, leaving a great hole 40ft long, stretching from her deck to below the water line. She heeled over at an acute angle, hut with the greatest presence of mind her pilot brought her nos© about and ran her ashore juat when it seemed certain thatshe must sink. rHer master, Captain T. Lindoe, ordered ] 13 of his crew to take to the lifeboat, while he remained on board all night with the pilot and two men. Those in the boat landed at Erith river police * jetty, and went to the Norwegian Seamen's Home.t
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