f the collision in which, but for the presence of mind of her began to enter. There is a water-tight door to captain, Royal B. Bradford, she might have shared ship’s divers, who placed felt-covered planking over the the fate of the British battleship “Victoria,” which and fled hole, and by means of… … engaged in maneuvers off the hole, as shown, and cement OF BATTLESHIP “ILLINOIS.” south coast of Cuba. The forced in for the purpose of fleet of battleships consisting filling the interstices and, as of the “Kearsarge,”’ “Maine,” “Massachusetts,” “Ala- the next compartment forward was immediately…
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