BRITISH WARSHIP IN RESCUE ATTEMPT.—The British steamer Kemmendine (8000 tons) arrived at Marseilles last month after five days adrift without a rudder. A photograph of the drifting ship taken from H.M.S. Cornwall, the boys' training ship, which picked up her S.O.S. signal and raced through a storm to her aid. When the connecting line between the two ships Was snapped by the force of the storm, the Cornwall stayed with the drifting Kemmendine for two days and then continued to St. Tropez, leaving the steamer to be towed into Marseilles by tug.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 68, 22 March 1938, Page 5
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92BRITISH WARSHIP IN RESCUE ATTEMPT.—The British steamer Kemmendine (8000 tons) arrived at Marseilles last month after five days adrift without a rudder. A photograph of the drifting ship taken from H.M.S. Cornwall, the boys' training ship, which picked up her S.O.S. signal and raced through a storm to her aid. When the connecting line between the two ships Was snapped by the force of the storm, the Cornwall stayed with the drifting Kemmendine for two days and then continued to St. Tropez, leaving the steamer to be towed into Marseilles by tug. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 68, 22 March 1938, Page 5
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