BUYERS FOR GRAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 128, 1 June 1936, Page 10

BUYERS FOR GRAIN

THE HERZOGIN CECILIE It has* been decided to attempt to salvage practically the whole of the Herwgin Cecile's cargo of grain, amounting to 4500 tons, says the "Daily Telegraph." The famous sailing ship went aground off the Bevon coast on April 25. All of the undamaged cargo—4so tons —has now been landed at Salcombe by lighters, and the -work of discharging the. remainder from the flooded holds is proceeding. The sound grain is worth roughly £8 a ton, and there is a good market for the damaged wheat at about onethird of that price. It is hoped to recover about £10,000 worth altogether. Contracts for the purchase of the grain have not yet been let, but English and Continental buyers arc competing keenly for it. The Her zo gin Cecilie is still hard on the rocks in Sewer Cove Bay. The weather has remained fine since she grounded, and her hull has sufTered very little further damage, apart from the opening of some cracks in her deck, due to the swelling of sodden wheat bags. Practically all her spars have now been removed, and there remains little-more than her damaged cargo to unload. Captain Erikson and his wife, formerly Miss Pamela Bourne, a B.A. of Oxford, and a daughter of the late Sir BOnald Bourne, Secretary of Defence in the Transvaal, still had their quarters aboard on May 6, though they have been absent in London on ship's business. The wind shifted to the south-west, and the ship was exposed to a, fairly heavy swell. While it was possible to briog cargo up from the holds on to the! deck, the swell prevented it being transferred to the lighters. The discharging operations will take some weeks to complete.