The Mediterranean Collision On April 1st H.M. aircraft-carrier 'Glorious '
came into collision with the French liner Florida' (9,300 tons) while manoeuvring with the Fleet off the Spanish coast between Gibraltar and Malaga. More than thirty lives were lost among the Spanish and Italian emigrants on board the Florida,' which was homeward bound from Buenos Aires, and which, badly damaged, was afterwards towed into Malaga. One naval rating of the Glorious ' was killed. The disaster was due to a thin layer of fog lying low over the mercifully calm sea ; it was, indeed, so thin that one of the aircraft from the ` Glorious' which were in the air at the time could see the masts of the two vessels approaching, though not soon enough for a warning. There can be nothing but praise for the skill and discipline which confined the death-roll on board the liner to a figure for which the crash was directly responsible.
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