STRUCK ICEBERG.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1928, Page 7

STRUCK ICEBERG.

ANOTHER WHALER LOST.

CARGO WORTH £200,000.

SDTKS Olf SOMEWABO TKEP.

CREW RESCUED BY "CHASERS "

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

IX VERCARGTLL, this day.

The whaler C. A. Larsen, anchored at the top of Glory Harbour, frequently communicates by wireless with the Sir James Clark Ross, now close to Panama. The latter 6hip reported that the Southern Queen, a vessel of 9000 tons, M just become a total wreck through striking an iceberg in South Georgia waters. As she had forty-three thousand barrels of oil, valued at over £200,000, and the ship was worth about the same amount, the underwriters will be hard hit.

The message stated that all the crew of the Southern Queen were saved by "chasers." The vessel was own ad by lever Brothers, and had a Norwegian crew.

Previous to her striking the Iceberg I the ballast had been adjusted to give her a sharp list to port to enable a leaky plate to be re-vited. While tliia was being done the vessel capsized and sank. Thirteen men went down with her, bat were picked up by the "chasers." Second Season Hatred. Up until a month ago the season's whaling operations carried out by the Norwegian ships in the Ross Sea were the most successful on record. The Xeilson T. Alonso reached Hobart with 57,000 barrels of oil, the Sir James Clarke Ross arrived at Stewart Island with 50,000 barrels, and the C. A. Larsen entered Paterson's Inlet at dnsk on February 21 with a cargo of 70,000 barrels. The oil in the Ross and the Larsen alone was estimated to be worth £800,000, and the Larsen's cargo was said to be the most valuable ever carried by a whaling ship. Misfortune—at first it seemed a disaster—overtook the ship at a time when all danger appeared to have passed. She went ashore in Paterson's Inlet, and although she has since been refloated. a considerable 'quantity of oil was lost and the ship was badly damaged.