BRITISH TANKER DIVERTED

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26639, 26 January 1952, Page 8

BRITISH TANKER DIVERTED

CAPTAIN REPORTED , ILL VESSEL TO BERTH AT PORT CHALMERS (Nn> Zealand Preu Attoetaaon) U DUNEDIN, January 25. 111 and requiring ♦ "TR5 1 attention, the tanker M elaide was to-night reported $? raein?., towards Port Chalmers SuiTsS °‘ r ”““ a, BS oa ’l-morrol. Before her diversion, the tanker was filing from Houston, Texas, with a fU Alfi^^°»k2 ,^ or .^ elbourne the ‘W did not report her mi ay ’. a PP® rent that she was following a “Great Circle” course around the tip of the South Island, shortest sea distance between Houston and Melbourne. Had the tanker been, on another would “rtainly have been Chalmew S ° me P ® rt n ° rth of Port No information was available toa???/kue r C i aptaln V‘ ame 9 r the t ? re . t of , hl ,* illness. The tanker is understood to be travelling to Port 1? knots* M hCr ftdi loaded of A 10,624-ton vessel, the Caltex Adelaide has previously visited Dimedin three times under the name last r ar ' was owned by the Overseas Tankship Corporation, but her port of register b ® e " chan Eed from Panama to Xxmaon. She is now operated by Overseas Tankships (UnitetfKingdom) kto’in 1950 ,Pany Wl "° h Waa formed

Ten year# have elapsed since a tanker was last diverted for emerto P ort Chalmers. In 1942. the Goldmoutt was diverted there because of a cracked cylinder. She ?>». w?® tolting » fuD oil cargo from toe P L states to Melbourne for the Snell Oil Company.