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“Shortly after midnight on June 10, while returning from a trip to the Jamestown Exposition the Minnesota steam launch was run into& sunk. Her crew of 5 men& 6 midshipmen were lost. The picture on the other side shows the launch after she was raised.”
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“A horrible and mysterious accident killed 11 midshipmen and sailors from the Minnesota and Connecticut on Monday evening June 10, 1907. Both battleships had been in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area to help participate in the Jamestown Exposition. Evidently, the 11 men were heading back to their ships aboard a steam launch from the Minnesota just after midnight Monday evening. The sailors from the Minnesota steam launch did not return to the ship and have not been seen since. The seas were rough and some think a wave overturned the craft. Others think a tug pulling a barge plowed into the small boat. In any case, no bodies have been found, only some caps, capes and clothing belonging to the men and a torn awning from the launch.
By Wednesday June 12, more facts of the disaster in Hampton Roads on Monday night were being uncovered. The results of the Minnesota’s launch sinking caused the drowning of 11 navy men. The dead included six midshipmen, returning from an army and navy ball, at the Jamestown exposition, and five seamen, crew of the steam-launch. The sinking resulted from the launch being run down by a tug towing a coal barge, and owing to the darkness did not see the launch from the Minnesota.”
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