SYDNEY STAR
GREAT HOLE AMIDSHIPS
SYDNEY, September 25
An examination today disclosed that the Blue Star motor freighter Sydney Star, which collided with the interState freighter Macumba late on Friday night, had a great hole amidships on the port side over the engine-room. The stem of the Macumba is bent badly and her port bow is a mass of twisted steel. The engine-room of the Sydney Star has 30 feet of water in it, but watertight doors kept other sections of the vessel clear.
When water submerged the engines and dynamos the vessel drifted towards the shore and grated gently on a sandy bottom.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1938, Page 8
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104SYDNEY STAR Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1938, Page 8
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