LINER HITS WHALE
EXCITEMENT ON ORFORD (Plica ISSOCIVTIO* TELtOKLU.) AUCKLAND, December 23. There was excitement aboard the Orient liner Orford, which arrived this morning, when the big ship struck and killed a whale in the Tasman sea, 210 miles off the Australian coast, on Tuesday morning, the day after leaving Brisbane. The officers had earlier seen two whales at a distance. A sudden tremor was felt throughout the after part of the ship and in the engine-room, where it was realised that something had been struck by the port propeller. The passengers and crew, gazing over the stern, saw blood in a churnedup sea, and a huge torn carcase drifting away. It is thought to be a whale, which probably came to the surface after a dive and collided with the propeller. Two years ago, in the Gulf of Aden, a rising sea monster fouled the Orford’s bows and was killed, the ship having to go astern to free herself from the carcase.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22593, 24 December 1938, Page 13
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