MOTOE SHIP'S TROUBLE
PISTOL CARRIES AWAY
(Received ISth September, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.
The motor-ship Sheaf Holme put into Sydney Harbour for repairs after drifting helplessly in the Pacific for fourteen days owing to engine trouble. The ship was cv route for Fremantle from Nauru when one of the huge 63in pistons carriec 1 away.
The Shoaf Holme is a single-screw n.otor vessel of 4811 tons, built in 1929 by Piekeragill and Sons, Sunderland, and fitted with Doxford two-stroke engines lof three cylinders. Tho diameter of the pistons, two to each cylinder, is given as 22 l-16in and-the stroke Sain. The reference in the cable messago will, no doubt, be to the length of tiio | piston.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 9
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