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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 252, 21 July 1938, Page 16

The disappearance of the German four-mast barque Admiral Karpfanger, formerly the L'Avenir, when en route from Port Adelaide to Europe, recalls the fact that each year sees further toll taken of the now tiny grain fleet. In 1936 the fine barque Herzogin Cecilie ran aground off the Devon coast and became a total loss; (he following year saw the Swedish barque C. B. Pedersen sunk in collision off the Azores, and the Finnish. Parma had to be broken up after suffering severe damage in collision. While it is, perhaps. early yet to surmise about the possible fate of the Admiral Karpfanger, those who know the ways of the sea will give more than a passing thought to the menace of Icebergs, which were reported in large numbers in southern waters this year. It will •be remembered that the fine new fivemast barque Kobenhavn, with a large crew of cadets, vanished from the seas in 1929 when en route from South America to Melbourne, and to this date not Hie slightest inkling of her fate has been found.