SHIPPING MISHAPS

Evening Post, Issue 98, 27 April 1936, Page 8

SHIPPING MISHAPS

BARQUE ON ROCKS

MAY BECOME TOTAL WRECK

LINER IN COLLISION

■United Press Association—By Electric Tele-

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LONDON, April 25.

Two well-known ships are in trouble. The Herzogin Cecilie, a Finnish fourmasted barque of 2111 tons, is on the rocks off Devon, and the liner Orama (19,777 tons) collided with an unknown vessel in the Channel.

The Herzogin Cecilie is in danger of becoming a total wreck. Holds 1 and 2 are believed to be waterlogged. Seas are washing over the bows, which are pointed out ' > sea.

The boatswain, Holgeld, says that the ship experienced compass trouble on the latter part of the voyage. The steersman in the dead of night off Hamston Rock reported that the compass was swinging strangely. The next minute they were aground in a thick fog. They sent up flares and. rockets at 3 a.m.

The Salcombe lifeboat was immediately launched and landed 23 survivors at Salcombe, where they were billeted in hotels. Everyone behaved splendidly.

The lifeboat again attempted to reach the Herzogin Cecilie, but the seas were too rough. Tugs found it impossible to move the barque in her present position. As Captain Eriksson, his wife, and six members of the crew were unable to leave, rocket apparatus shot a lifeline from the cliffs, enabling a breeches buoy to be fitted in the event of renewed danger.

The Orama was proceeding to Tilbury, with a skeleton crew from Barrow, where she had refitted, and collided in a slight fog near the East Goodwin lightship. The Orama wirelessed that she did not need assistance. Nothing is known of the second vessel, which is believed to be undamaged.