SHIP STRIKES WHALE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day,
There was excitement aboard the Orient liner Orford, which arrived this morning when the big ship struck and Rilled a whale in the Tasman about 210 miles off the Australian coast, on Tuesday morning, the day after leaving Brisbane. Officers had earlier seen two whales at a distance. A sudden tremor was felt throughout the afterpart of the ship and the engine-ropm where it was realised that something had been struck by the port propeller. Passengers and crew gazing over the stern saw blood in the churned-up sea and a huge torn carcass drifting away.
It is thought that the whale probably came to the surface after a dive and collided with the propeller.
Two years ago, in the Gulf of Aden, a rising sea monster fouled the Orford's bows and was killed, the ship having to go astern to free herself from the carcass.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 11
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