THEORY PROPOUNDED.
PROPELLER AND SOME FLOATING OBJECT.
DAMAGE TO BULKHEAD,
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDESf, this day.
A former marine engineer advances the possible theory that one of the Tahiti's propellers struck some floating object, possibly a spar, the effect of which might easily be to drive the other end of the object -with terrific velocity against the hull plates, penetrating a vital part and possibly involving serious damage to a bulkhead.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 195, 19 August 1930, Page 9
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