WYATT EARP'S RUDDER
HIDDEN* DAMAGE REVEALED
(By Telcoraph.)
(Special to the "Evening Post.' 1) DUNEDIN, February 26. . Providence: was on the side- of Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, or the Wyatt Earp would have left her r bones in i the ice.
It has been disclosed sinco the vessel has be&n in dry dock at Port Chalmers that the rudder was fractured in two places where it passed upward through the trunkway from the rudder head to the quadrant on deck.
The rudder seemed>a little out of alignment. An investigation was made-, and the defects were so serious that tho rudder stock /snapped off in being unshipped. But for the tight-fitting trunkway on which it worked, it would have broken before. The metal had crystallised. ' • T'
A new stock is being. fitted; ; Had the handstock broken in the Antarctic there would have been nothing to prevent tho rudder swinging round and stripping.the propeller blades. , ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 49, 27 February 1934, Page 4
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