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Page 1  The Royal Gazette and Colonist Daily, Mon., 25 Oct., 1926.
    TERRIBLE NAVAL DISASTER.
          
H.M.S. Valerian Founders just off Bermuda. Captain
                              Usher and Eighteen Men Rescued.

        
British Steamer "Eastway" Lost in Storm. Twelve Survivors Landed at St. George's.
                       
Full Story of the Belated Hurricane of Friday. Much Damage to Property.

Bermuda was struck with a storm on Friday that not only wrought damage estimated at between 100,000 and 150,000 pounds, but caused the founding of one of the ships of the North America and West Indies Station, H.M.S. Valerian, and a freight steamer, only 19 survivors being picked up in the former case and 12 in the latter.
  For several days
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