S.O.S. CALL.
FROM STEAMER SOUTHGATE.
BOUND TOR C;hii.-f.
TROUBLE NOT STATED.
(By Telegraph
-Pre.-* Association.)
WBLI.INOTOX, this day
Tlie secretary of the Ceneral lust Office received the following message from the officer in charge of the Wellington. Tvirele-'s station at 4.:!4 this inorii-
I "S.s. Ruapehu advised this station ! that she had received an S.O.S. call fnira , .<-(=._ Southgate. latitude 4-_».i\ longitude 145.50, couwe N'.tM. Nature of trouble , unknown. It U stated that the SouthJ gates signals were fading ami they -were I iina!ble to read anvthimr further." The approximate distance of the Ruapehu from the SotiUnrate was eight hundred miles." The Southgate -was bound f.>r I'alea- ' huna (ChHe) from Sydney. She was off ' tlio Three on the nijht off the ">rd of July. The Southgate iV a steel screw steamer ! built in 1899 by Messrs. T. TurnmiH and ' of Wllitby. for the TnrnbuU. Scott j Shipping Co.. Ltd.. and being :?RGI tons ; gross register, and of the following dimensions: lx'uirth 351 ft. breadth 43ft. depth 20ft. She one iron deck, an.l jan iron spar deck and wel> frames, and li* fitted with wireless.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 167, 17 July 1922, Page 5
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183S.O.S. CALL. Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 167, 17 July 1922, Page 5
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