DISTRESS SIGNALS
AORANOT ANSWERS S.O.S
The secretary of the P. and T. Department has been advised by the superintendent at tho Auckland radio station of the receipt from R.M.S. Aorangi at 11 p.m. last night of a message to the effect that at 11 p.m. the vessel intercepted distress signals from s.s. Hedwig, giving the position of the steamer as Lat. 20.42 degrees, Long. 116.50 degrees, but nothing was sent to indicate whether north, south, east, or west. The S.O.S. was still being sent at 11.30 p.m., together with a request t6 answer on 40 metres. The Aorangi answered on 40 metres, but reported that she had had no response. Lloyd's Register gives details of a vessel named ITedwig as a steel screw oil-cnguicd vessel of 168 tons gross register,'lls feet in length, and* 19.7 feet in breadth. Slio belongs to tho Itteu Line, Hamburg, Germany. Since her construction in 1912 she has had three other names, the Daniel, the Oppo. Ippen, and the Oppo Ippen y.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 13
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167DISTRESS SIGNALS Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 13
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