Bombs claimed sister ship

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34128, 14 April 1976, Page 17

Bombs claimed sister ship

There was tragedy in I the loss of one of three distinctively designed sister ships belonging to the Polish Ocean Lines’ fleet. ' In 1973 the Jozef Conrad I was bombed and sunk by

the United States Air Force ■in Haiphong harbour, with i the loss of five crew mem- • bers. • One of the two remaining’ sisters, the Kochanowski,’ •turned up at Lyttelton* 'yesterday on her first visit. j With her squat, stream-! | lined funnel and super-; i structure, the Kochanowski | was strongly reminiscent off i another recent visitor, the I Gilbert Island training vessel] 'Teraaka. I Perhaps this is not sur-i i prising since the Teraaka land the Kochanowski, Jozef [Conrad, and the third of the; 1 sisters. the Wyspianski, I 'were all built in Yugoslavia I jin the early 19605.

ARRIVALS I Iron Arnhem <6.26 am.), Capt. ,D Kinsella. Port Kembla (Seatrans». Rangatira '6.47 a m.), 9387. Capt. R Pugh-Williams. Wellington (U.S.S.). Kochanowski <7.02 a.nr*. 5731. Capt. C. Wasielewski. Dunedin (Kinsey). Union Sydney (10.9 a.m.). 4752, Capt. R. Stewart. Wellington (U.S.S.). DEPARTURES Frysna <4.14 p.m.i. 298, Capt. Houkinima. Auckland (Guthrey). Union Sydney (6.7 p.m.i. 4752, Capt. R. Stewart, Dunedin (U.S.S.). Rangatira <B.B p.m.i, 9387, Capt. R. Pugh-Williams. Wellington (U.S.S.L EXPECTED ARRIVALS Coastal Trader. Timaru. today. H.M.N.Z.S, Inverell, from sea, April 15. Italian Reefer, Auckland, April Luka Botic. Dunedin. April 15. Union Sydney, Dunedin. April 15. Shinsakura Maru, Wellington, April 16. Straat Colombo, Dunedin, April I 16. PROJECTED DEPARTURES [Coastal Trader. Auckland, today, i Fremantle Star, Dunedin. April Icenic. Bluff. April 15. jUnion Sydney, Wellington. April IKochanowski, Europe. April 20. VESSLS IN PORT [lcenic. Cashin Quay No. I. Fremantle Star, Cashin Quay No. Tllyric, G.P.E. Holmdale. No. 3 East. Kochanowski. No. 3 West. Iron Arnhem. No. 4 West. Mawhera. Graving Dock.