HEAVY SEAS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 288, 5 September 1928, Page 11

HEAVY SEAS

CLAN LAMONT LIMPS INTO ALGOA BAY SAILOR WASHED OVERBOARD (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) Cape Town, September 3. The Clan Lamont limped into Algoa Bay, after- battling since Friday with terrific seas from Madagascar. She is making Cape Town to coal. A sailor was washed overboard, and three lifeboats were carried away. The ship developed a dangerous list to starboard. Her distress calls were answered by the I’akipaki. which escorted her. Where the gale struck the fiercest was the notorious graveyard of the ships Marguerite and Competitor, and. it. is believed, the site where the lost Waratah lies. TWO LIVES LOST ON ANCHORIA LINER SWEPT BY HUGE WAVE (Australian Press Assn.—United Service ) Colombo, Septeniber 3. The chief engineer, Mr. Tulloek, and a lascar lost their lives, while the fourth and fifth engineers were seriously injured, when the Brocklebank liner Anchoria, bound from Calcutta to Colombo shipped a heavy sea in the Bay of Bengal on August 2S. The chief engineer and a party of lascars were engaged in repairing a steampipe casing which had broken loose on the foredeck. The ship lurched, and as the bow dipped, a huge wave swept over her. The lascar was washed into the sea, and Mr. Tulloek was fatally injured. Mr. Tulloch was buried at sea. CASTLE MOON'S CARGO ON FIRE VESSEL MAKING FOR ADELAIDE . (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) London, September 3. The owners of the Castle Moon, bound from Blyth to Adelaide, received a wireless message on September 1 stating that the cargo had been on fire in the main hatch for a week, and was spreading, but the captain believed it could be controlled until the vessel arrived at Adelaide. Her position then was 1250 miles from Albany.