SHIPPING MISHAPS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 12007, 27 April 1936, Page 3

SHIPPING MISHAPS

BARQUE ON ROCKS

EIGHT STILL ON BOARD

STEAMER IN COLLISION

London, Aprii 25

Two well-known ships are in trouble. The barque Herzogin Cecilie is on the rocks off Devon and the steamer Orama collided with an unknown vessel in the Channel. The Herzogin Cecelie is in danger of becoming a total wreck. Holds one and two arc believed to be waterlogged and seas are washing over the bows, which are pointing toward the sea.

The boatswain, Holgeld, says he experienced compass trouble in the latter part of the voyage. The steersman in the dead of night off Hamston Rock reported that the compass was swinging strangely. The next minute the barque went aground in a thick fog. The master sent up flares and rockets at 3 a.m. The Salcombe lifeboat was immediately launched and landed 23 of the crew at Salcombe, where they were billeted in hotels. Everyone behaved splendidly. Another attempt to reach the vessel in the lifeboat was made this .afternoon, but the seas were too rough. Tugs have not been able to move her from her present position. As Captain Eriksson and his wife and six members of the crew could not leave the barque a rocket apparatus shot a life-line from the cliffs enabling a breeches buoy to be fitted up in the event of renewed danger. The Orama was proceeding to Tilbury with a skeleton crew from Barrow, where she had been refitted. She collided in a slight fog near the East Goodwin lightship. The Captain wirelessed that he did not need assistance. Nothing is known of the vessel with which the Orama collided, but she is believed not to have been damaged.