An item dated Galveston, USA 20th reported that the American battleship Connecticut received a wireless SOS telegram. After steaming to the location were 100 passengers of the Norwegian steamship Atlanta [some newspaper reporting Atlanta, others Atlantis] stranded on a distance of 100 miles from Tampico, Mexico rescued. Mostly were it foreigners returning from Galveston to the oilfields.(1)
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1. Connecticut-class consisting Connecticut, Louisiana, Kansas, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Vermont, preceded by the Virginia-class and succeeded by the Mississippi-class. Ordered on 1 July 1902, awarded on 15 October 1902. Laid down at New York Naval Shipyard on 10 March 1903, launched by Alice B. Welles on 29 September 1904, commissioned on 29 September 1906, decommissioned and reserve on 15 December 1915, recommissioned on 3 October 1916, decommissioned on 1 March 1923 and sold to Walter W. Johnson, San, Francisco for 42.740 US dollars to be broken up on 1 November 1923.
