END OF WAR WITH STORM.

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 58, 5 September 1925, Page 7

END OF WAR WITH STORM.

KEKEBANGU'S EFFORTS AT

SALVAGE,

One of the most ■ thrilling wreck stories of recent years,; conveyed in brief cable ,' mesf sages, is completed by th« report that the Union Company's steamer Karamu sank- in the storm off the Tasinanian coast. She was found in a disabled con-, dition, due to a heavy storm, by the same company's' Kekerangu, which tried in vain to take her in tow. The lines broke, and the Kekerangu's propeller was fouled. The two ships were dashed together by the heavy seas. After a long struggle the Kekerangu's screw was cleared, and she managed to reach port. Other ships had meantime come to the scene, but were unable to help the Karamu.

A previous report' that a boatload of tlie Karamu's men had been lost is to-day contradicted; the men were picked up.,-; . *;

HOBART, 4th September;. ",;■ The latest report regarding the mishap' ■ off the coast states that the .Karamu >

sank. Fifteen of her crew were taken aboard the Karma, which is returning to ,Hobart.- The other .eleven; who!yesterday left the Karamu in a lifeboat, and who it t was feared, were drowned, were picked up after knocking about:in the rough sea for many hours.. „ -..".'.