TANKER AGROUND
PETROL A DANGER TO LIVERPOOL STRANGE SEQUENCE OF FRIDAYS By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. . (Rec. February 19, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 17. The large oil tanker Varand, constructed by Armstrong-Whitworth’s last year, on returning from her maiden voyage to New Orleans, loaded with 7400 tons of benzine, is aground at the mouth of the Mersey, and it is feared that she will break up, releasing the petrol, which would be carried up to Liverpool on the rising tide. The disaster is the climax of three weeks of buffeting. The vessel lost her propeller and rudder after striking a submerged wreck in the Atlantic. An SOS brought the assistance of a powerful tug, and she was under tow when a fierce squall broke the tow-rope. She then drifted helplessly. ‘ The crew point out that they left New Orleans on a Friday; they encountered the first gale on a Friday and struck wreckage on Friday. On two subsequent Fridays they saved the ship by the barest margin, and finally grounded in sight of home on a Friday.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 121, 20 February 1928, Page 9
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176TANKER AGROUND Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 121, 20 February 1928, Page 9
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